Invite your middle- and upper-grade students to learn more about the Statue of Liberty online! Before you begin, distribute the CyberHunt Reproducible, below. Then send students to www.scholastic.com/cyberhuntkids or directly to the interactive hunt.

1. France. 1886.
2. 350.
3. 11. “Liberty Enlightening the World.”
4. Emma Lazarus. Immigrants.
5. An average bedroom (150 square feet). Surfboard.
6. The United States of America gained its independence from Great Britain on this date.
7. Crown. 354 steps.
8. 25 feet. 879.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lazaruspoem.html
Emma Lazarus wrote her famous poem, “The New Colossus,” to raise money to build the statue's base. Read the poem with students, and then invite them to write their own from the point of view of the statue. What would she say to the many visitors who come to see her every day?

www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts.htm
Instill in students an appreciation of the statue's grand scale by printing a list of Lady Liberty's key measurements from this site, and then asking students to mark out these different lengths in colored chalk on the playground. To extend, challenge pairs of students to compute how the statue's measurements compare to each member of the pair. How many times bigger than we are is Lady Liberty?

http://papertoys.com/statue.htm
Invite students to make paper statues with this template enlarged to legal size. Students can use www.nyctourist.com/liberty1.htm and the Web sites contained in the CyberHunt to decorate their models and label them with fun facts about the real Statue of Liberty.

 
Philip Stevens teaches at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, PA.
 
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