MassachusettsThe Bay State

State Capital: BostonBecame the 6th state on Feb. 1788

Sometimes called New England

State quarter:

It is named after the Massachusetts Indians.

State flower:The mayflower

State bird:Black-capped Chickadee

State tree:American Elm

State animal:Boston Terrier

New England Patriots (National Football League)

Professional Sports Teams

Boston Celtics (National Basketball Association)

Boston Red Sox (Major League Baseball)

Boston Bruins (National Hockey League)

Massachusetts is only 190 miles long and 50 miles wide at its most distant points, only 10,555 square miles (only 7,838 miles are land). It has a population of over 6, 500, 000. It also includes two islands-Martha’s Vinyard and Nantucket Islands.

Geography

The state of Tennessee is 4 times larger than Massachusetts.

Five states border Massachusetts and one ocean. Because it is located by the ocean it has over 25 lighthouses.

WHAT CONNECTS TENNESSEE TO THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS?

The American industrial revolution began in Lowell. Lowell was America's first planned industrial city.

Boston 1845 Elias Howe invented the first sewing machine.The Boston Tea Party 1773

Springfield --The Basketball Hall Of Fame. 1891: The first basketball game was played in Springfield.

1636 Cambridge –Home of Harvard University and MIT

Worcester is Home to 10 Colleges And Universities --University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Clark University

HistoryBoston, Worcester, Springfield, Cambridge,

Lowell

1890 Thomas Edison Opens General Electric

John Adams 2nd U.S. PresidentJohn Quincy Adams 6th U.S. PresidentJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush 41st President

Benjamin Franklin Declaration of Independence,Eli Whitney Cotton Gin bifocals, franklin stove

John Hancock Declaration of Independence signaturePaul Revere “The British are coming!” “One by land and two by sea.”

Clara Barton American Red CrossSusan Anthony National Woman Suffrage AssociationLucy Stone National Women's Rights ConventionLouisa May Alcott Little House on the Prairie

Famous Citizens

http://www.bostonkids.org/kids/online_games.html#100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WMzfQs618&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKgWdNCOW40&feature=related Aaron Lewis What Hurts the Most

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqlRoOQaSII&feature=relatedJo Dee Messina Because You Love Me

Aaron Lewis Massachusetts

http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.html Map practicehttp://www.netstate.com/states/quiz/ma_quiz.htm Mass. Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oT0DrF2F6c Bee Gees

Can you find John Hancock’s name on the Declaration of Independence?

The Pilgrim Monument

Plymouth Rock 1620

Nauset and Patuxet Indians were kidnapped and sent to Spain as slaves. New Americans angered the tribes until one day Tisquantum (Squanto) worked out a peace agreement with the Pilgrims.

Replica of the Mayflower

The Baked Bean StateThe Puritans served brown bread and baked beans on Sundays because they could be prepared on Saturday. From this practice came the nickname, "The Baked Bean State." Boston has become famous for its baked beans.

The Pilgrim StateNicknamed after the Pilgrims in Massachusetts and the establishment of the Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims set up a government in Massachusetts called the "Mayflower Compact." In 1621, the first Thanksgiving was held.

The Puritan StateMassachusetts has been called "The Puritan State" because the Puritan emigrants arrived in Massachusetts looking for a place to practice their religion where they would not be persecuted.

Bunker Hill Monument

221 feet tall

The first major battle of the American Revolution was fought here on June 17, 1775.

294 steps

There are no elevators USS Constitution

USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. It was first launched in 1797.

CHARLESTON

This house in Rockport is

built entirely of newspaper.

Concord --Minute man National Park

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The Fig Newton was named after Newton, Massachusetts.

Quincy had the first Dunkin Donuts and the first Howard Johnson‘s.

The first nuclear-powered surface vessel, USS Long Beach CG (N) 9, was launched at Quincy in 1961.

Cool Facts

1829 Watertown –Perkins, the first school for the blind

The official state dessert of Massachusetts is Boston cream pie.

Milford is known the world over for its unique pink granite, discovered in the 1870's and used on the exteriors of museums, government buildings, monuments and railroad stations.

EconomyLivestock –dairy products 12%, cattle, chicken eggs (General Mills-Yogurt, Breyers)

Crops—Ornamental crops 35%, cranberries more than 25% of nation’s produceSweet corn, apples, and hay is the major field crop

Fishing—50% of the scallops produced in the nation (cod, flounder, haddock….)

Manufactuing—cloth, textiles, computer and electronic products (state’s leader), communications systems, electronic controls, manufactured metal products, chemicals

Mining—sand, gravel, granite

Services—Medical research, Technology, Microsoft

Financial—The Boston Stock Exchange

As of 1997, the state was the headquarters for 16 Fortune 500 companies

Social Studies - Curriculum Standards- Fourth Grade

CultureContent Standard: 1.0

GLE 1.01 Understand the diversity of human cultures.

GLE 1.02 Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world.

GLE 1.03 Recognize the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic,racial, religious, socioeconomic groups to the development of civilizations.

SPI 4.1.2. Identify cultural groups who inhabited North America in the 17thcentury (i.e., Puritans, Quakers, Spanish, French).

GLE 3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations,tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatialperspective. √ a. Explain how physical and human characteristics of places and regions within the state and the United States developed.

GLE 3.02 Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around theworld. √ a. Explain how physical and human characteristics of places and regions within thestate and the United States developed.

SPI 4.3. 2. Identify and use key geographical features on maps (i.e., mountains,rivers, plains, valleys, forests).

GeographyContent Standard: 3.0

HistoryContent Standard: 5.0

Era 1 - Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)

GLE 5.01 Identify the ancient civilizations of the Americas.

GLE 5.02 Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present andfuture.

Era 2 - Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)GLE 5.04 Recognize the role desire for freedom played in the settlement of the NewWorld. √ a. Discuss the search for religious, economic, and individual freedom in thesettlement of the colonies

GLE 5.05 Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present andfuture. √ c. Explain the importance of the Mayflower Compact. √ d. Understand the role of religion in the English colonies such as the evolution ofreligious freedom and the treatment of religious dissenters.

Governance and CivicsContent Standard:

GLE 4.01 Discuss the structure and purposes of governance.

GLE 4.02 Describe the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee StateConstitution in principle and practice. √ a. Identify examples of representative government in the American colonies,including the Mayflower Compact, Iroquois League, and the Virginia House ofBurgesses.

GLE 4.03 Understand the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in ademocratic republic. √ 4.4.03 a. Identify the purposes and explain the importance of the Declaration ofIndependence.

GLE 4.04 Recognize the qualities of a contributing citizen in our participatoryDemocracy.

SPI 4.4. 3. examine how the Mayflower Compact is a symbol of the first UnitedStates government.

EconomicsContent Standard: 2.0

GLE 2.02 Give examples of the interaction of groups, businesses, and governments in amarket economy.

GLE 2.03 Understand fundamental economic concepts.

GLE2.04 Understand the development of economics within Tennessee and earlyAmerica.

SPI 4.2.01 Describe the potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy. c. Analyze how people in different parts of the United States earned a living in the past and do so in the present.

SPI 4.2.02 Give examples of the interaction of groups, businesses, and governments in amarket economy. b. Identify major industries of colonial America.

References

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ss/index.shtml

http://www.netstate.com/states/quiz/ma_quiz.htm

Welcome to Clark University, 2011. Retrieved Oct 10, 2011, from http://www.clarku.edu/aboutclark/ Welcome to Worcester, Massachusetts! 2011. Retrieved Oct 10, 2011, from http://www.worcesterma.gov

Massachusetts Facts and Trivia. Retrieved Oct 8, 2011, fromhttp://www.50states.com/facts/mass.htm

Massachusetts Economy, Feb. 28, 2011. Retrieved Oct. 9, 2011, fromhttp://www.netstate.com/economy/ma_economy.htm