Nebraska - School-Age
Nebraska State Symbols
Nebraska: Great Seal
Beverage: Milk
Ballad: "A Place Like Nebraska" by Sol Kutler
Bird: Western Meadowlark
Fish: Channel Catfish
Flower: Goldenrod
Gem: Blue Chalcedony
Grass: Little Bluestem
Insect: Honeybee
Mammal: White-tailed Deer
Poet laureate: John G. Neihardt (1881-1973
River: Platte River
Rock: Prairie Agate
Soft Drink: Kook-Aid
Soil: Holdredge Series
Song: Beautiful Nebraska
Tree: Eastern Cottonwood
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Things to Know
United States Senators from Nebraska.
93% of the millons of acres of land in the state is used for farming.
Nebraka's beef industry is the second largest in the U.S. (to Texas).
Nebraksa was nicknamed the "Cornhusker State" in 1945 by the legislature because of the importance of corn to Nebraska. The name is derived from the nickname of the University of Nebraska football team; who are called the Cornhuskers.
Nebraska was part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Nebraska is a Great Plains State.
In the Spring, Sandhill Cranes make the migatory journey from Mexico to northern parts of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia. Eighty percent of the world's population, approximately 500,000 Sandhill Cranes converge on the Platte River.
Major Rivers: Missouri River, Niobrara River (230+ waterfalls have been recorded along the Niobrara River.), Platte River, Republican River
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Famous Nebraskans
Gerald R. Ford 38th U.S. president, Omaha, Nebraska (1913- ) was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902) journalist, politician, acting governor. Started Arbor day. The first Arbor Day was on April 10, 1872 and Nebraskans planted over one million trees.
Edward Perkins (1889-1961) invented Kool-Aid.
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) dancer, singer, and actor.
Prairie
Nebraska is a Great Plains State.
The Great Plains is the name of the prairie region in the center of the United States.
Prairie - Grasslands in North America are called prairies. On other contintents the same land is called steppes, pampas, savannas, plains, and grasslands
One thing they have in common, they are located in the interior of a continent, never near the coast.
Nebraska is a land of plains, it has two major land regions:
Dissected Till Plains in the eastern part of the state. It covers the eastern fifth of Nebraska. This area has low hills criss-crossed by streams and rivers. The Dissected Till Plains is a farming area with fields of corn, soybeans, sorghum grain and other crops. The Northern region is known as the Loess Hills. Loess is a yellowish windblown dust in the American Midwest.
Great Plains of Nebraska are west of the Till Plains. It has several diverse land regions, Badlands, Sandhills, farmlands, wetlands, lakes, and and Rainwater Basin.
Things to Do
Tall Tales: Legendary folklore character Drought Buster
Nebraska Flag Map color page
