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Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 4: Pennsylvania
Infographic #5: The Economy of Pennsylvania
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1. Caution! Heat at work. Learn about steel—one of Pennsylvania's major industries. Watch carefully as iron ore is made into steel at Steel Works: Learning Center.
http://www.steel.org/learning/

  • Read about the importance of steel. Then click Animated Steel Flowline.
  • Find "Iron Ore" in the upper left. Follow the top arrow. Then answer the first four questions in the activity below.
  • At the Web site, scroll to the bottom of the page and click View the Steel Finishing Flowline.
  • Answer the last three questions below.

Online Activity: Merrily We Flow Along
Use the animated diagrams at the Web site to answer the following questions. Type you answers in the boxes.



   Steelmaking Flowlines

  Watch the iron ore go into a furnace. What is used to heat the first furnace?
   

   The electric arc furnace is next. What comes out of it?
   

   What else can go into the electric arc furnace?
   

   Then molten steel is cast (made into shapes and cooled). Describe two shapes that steel can have when it comes out.
   

   Steel Finishing Flowline

  Where does steel go before it is made into different products?
   

   If steel is flattened into a plate, what can it be made into next?
   

   Name another product that steel can be made into.
   


2. The hard work of notable Pennsylvanians paved the way for business and industry in the state and nation. Have you heard of these Pennsylvania people and businesses? Go to Pennsylvania Tourism.
http://www.pamedia2000.com/english/tourism.html

  • Scroll down and click Pennsylvania's Industrial Heritage.
  • Read the page to learn about the people and industries of Pennsylvania, past and present.
  • At the bottom of the page, click Business. Explore some well-known Pennsylvania businesses.
Offline Activity: Prominent Pennsylvania!
Use the information on the Web site to make up your own matching game. With others in your group write the names of five Pennsylvania people and three Pennsylvania businesses on a set of note cards. Then write facts that describe each person or business on a second set of cards. For example, you can write H. J. Heinz on one card and Built up a prepared food business on another, or Smith and Binney and Famous for crayon business. Turn all the cards face down and play a concentration-type matching game.

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