Transcript The Midwest A Crop Duster Tour… What color should we click for the Midwest?

The Midwest
A Crop Duster Tour…
What color should we click for the
Midwest?
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Welcome to the Midwest!
St. Louis, Missouri
“The Gateway to the west”
•St. Louis was originally
settled by French
traders
•St. Louis was a frontier
town or one where
unsettled country
begins
•Located at the fork of
the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers
•The arch was built to
honor the pioneers who
first explored the west
Iowa: “The Corn
state”
•Almost every inch of Iowa
is covered by farms! This is
why it is sometimes called
the corn state
•Iowa is mostly prairie or
flat rolling land
•Iowa is rich in fertile soil
that is able to produce
crops
•Iowa produces huge crops
of corn, soybeans, oats,
and hay
•Many crops are fed to
livestock like chickens,
cattle, or hogs
“America’s Breadbasket”
• The Midwest is know as America’s breadbasket
because of its massive production of grain
• Grain is used to make other products, with the
most common being bread
Dodge City, Kansas
• Kansas produces more
wheat than any other
state
• Meatpacking is preparing
meat for sale and is an
important industry in the
Midwest
• In the 1870’s cowboys
would drive cattle to
Dodge City to be packed
and shipped east for sale
“Home on the Range”
• Home on the Range is the state song of Kansas
written in 1870
• The author sings of the beauty of the great plains
Click to play song
Alvin and the Chipmunks version
South Dakota’s Heroes
• Carved into Mt. Rushmore
are the faces of George
Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Theodore
Roosevelt, and Abraham
Lincoln
• Each head is six stories tall
• Sioux Indian chief Crazy Horse
is carved into the black hills
• The Black Hills are sacred to
the Sioux and they fought the
United States for them
• Native Americans lost most of
their land and were forced to
live on reservations or special
areas for their use
Soo Locks, Michigan
• The Soo Locks are the
two longest in the world
• The locks are capable of
lifting heavy ships 21 feet
from Lake Huron to Lake
Superior
• Some of the largest ships
are called “salties”
because they come from
the Atlantic Ocean
Video of a salty passing
through the locks
Motor City: Detroit, Michigan
Click for Video on the Ford assembly line
• Henry Ford started an
automobile factory in Detroit
• Ford had a problem of high
costs to produce his cars
• Ford cut cost by having all of
his parts made at one time,
this is called mass production
• Ford then installed his parts
on a moving assembly line so
each worker only had to do
one task
• The time it took to make a
car dropped from 12 hours to
93 minutes
Midwest Weather: Blizzards
• The Midwest frequently
experiences storms with heavy
snowfall and freezing winds
called blizzards
• Blizzards can cause damage to
property, can shut down
transportation, and be expensive
to clean up
O’Hare International Airport, Chicago
• This airport is a
transportation hub or
center for moving
goods and people
• O’Hare is one of the
busiest airports in the
U.S.
• Transportation is very
important to the
economy of the
Midwest and the U.S.
Wrigley Field: Chicago, Illinois
• Wrigley Field is home to
Chicago’s Major League
Baseball team the Cubs
• The field is the second
oldest park in America
• Babe Ruth once hit a
legendary home run
here
Mall of America, Minnesota
• The largest indoor shopping mall in
the United States
• The mall protects shopper from
Minnesota’s harsh blizzards,
tornados, and hailstorms
• The mall has 520 stores, 50
restaurants, 14 movie theaters, and
an amusement park
Mall of America
• 86 hours is the length of
time it would take to
complete your visit to
the Mall if you were to
spend just 10 minutes
in each store!
• Here is a video of all the
mall has to offer in 60
seconds
Mall of America Facts (By the numbers)
Mall of America Video