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Itinerary:

Today we will visiting the Statue of Liberty.  We will read the story “The Story of the Statue of Liberty” by Betsy Maestro.  Then we will find the Statue of Liberty on our maps.

 

After that, we will discuss the Statue of Liberty and why it is so important.  After that, we will create postcards from the Statue of Liberty, and will write three facts that we learned and a question about what we’d like to learn more about on the other side.

 

After that, we will create a 3-D model of the statue.

 

 

Where is the Statue of Liberty?

 

 

 

Links:

Live Webcam

Virtual tour from Manhattan to Ellis Island

Template for 3-D statue

 

 

 

Important information about the Statue of Liberty:

The Statue of Liberty is also called “Liberty Enlightening the World.”  It was given to the United States by France as a gesture of friendship in the late 19^th century.  It is located on “Liberty Island” in New York, and welcomes all visitors, immigrants and returning Americans.  It represents liberty and escape from oppression.

 

The Statue of Liberty holds a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left.  The tablet has the date July 4, 1976 written on it.  One of her feet stands on chains, and the seven spikes in the crown represent the seven seas or continents.

 

The height from the ground to the top of the torch is 305 feet, and this includes the foundation and the pedestal.  The actual statue is 151 feet.  It weighs 204 tons. It is made from copper plates hammered into wooden forms.

 

Inside the pedestal of the statue is a museum that presents the history of the statue.  There is a spiral stairway on the inside that takes you to an observation deck in the crown.  The ladder in the right arm holding the torch was open to the public before 1916.  The inside of the statue has not been opened to the public since 2001. 

 

The Statue of Liberty is engraved on New York’s State Quarter.

 

A poem is engraved on the pedestal of the statue, called “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. 

 

 

 

The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus

 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles.  From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame,

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips.  "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"