2nd Grade Sarah Plain and Tall Research

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2nd Grade Sarah Plain and Tall Research

• From the Coast of Maine to the Plains of Kansas
• By the 2nd Grade Reading Enrichment Students
• Facilitator Mrs. Fiedler

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United States Map Showing Maine Kansas
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MAINE
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Facts About Maine

• Maine is on the Atlantic Ocean
• Maine is a cold place
• Maine has a lot of mountains
• A lot of people go to Maine on vacation and buy
  t-shirts mugs
• Maine is the Pine Tree State

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More Facts about Maine

• The state cat is the Coon Cat
• The state bird is the Chickadee

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Maine State Flower Lobster
White Pine Cone Tassel
Maine Lobster
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Maine

• The population of Maine is 1,227,928
• The capital of Maine is Augusta

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Maine

• Maine is the 23rd State.
• It became part of the United States on March 15,
  1820.
• Maine has lots of rocky shores, vast green
  forests, sparkling lakes, flowing rivers and
  rounded mountains.
• Maine was part of the Underground Railroad

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Things to See Do in Maine

• Hike, bike or skateboard on the Kennebec Trail.

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More to do in Maine

• Visit the states only national park Acadia
  National Park on Mount Desert Island.
• Swim, hike, bike, eat lobster, shop

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Famous People from Maine

• Milton Bradley
• He invented many board games.
• Life
• Candyland
• Battleship
• Invented the paper cutter

• E.B White - Author
• He lived in Maine for 40 years.
• Charlottes Web
• Stuart Little
• The Trumpet of the Swan

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More Famous People from Maine

• Abbie Burgess
• Did the work of keeping the Lighthouse at
  Matinicus Rock lit.

• Winslow Homer
• Famous American landscape painter and printer

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Fish Jumping out of the Water in Maine
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A Lighthouse in Maine
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Kansas

• Capital is Topeka
• Population is 2,594,840
• It became part of the United States through the
  Louisiana Purchase in 1861

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The State Bird State Flower

• State Flower is Native Sunflower

• State Bird is the Western Meadowlark

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Kansas

• Corn hay grow well in Kansas
• Kansas has lots of tall grass
• Eastern Kansas receives twice as much rain as
  Western Kansas

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Things to See Do in Kansas

• The Kansas Vietnam Memorial Fountain in Junction
  City, which is near Fort Riley
• The Statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene.

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More Things to Do in Kansas

• Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in
  Hutchinson.
• Go to a Jayhawks game at the University of Kansas
  in Lawrence

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Famous People from Kansas

• Carrie Nation
• Leader in the temperance movement to outlaw
  production sale of alcoholic beverages

• Robert (Bob) Dole
• Fought in WWII
• Kansas senator, serving as floor leader
• Ran for president

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Vietnam Memorial in Kansas