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from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick More About the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes form the world’s largest freshwater system. About 20 percent of our planet’s fresh surface water is in the Great Lakes.
photo by Jeff Lefevre, courtesy NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
People sometimes call them freshwater oceans or the third coast. This is because the lakes are so huge that they can seem like oceans.
Discovering the lakes In the early 1500s, French explorer
Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River, hoping to find a passage to China and Japan. When he reached what is now Quebec, he claimed the river and surrounding areas for France. From there, other explorers moved
west, discovering the Great Lakes in the early 1600s. When Frenchman Jean Nicolet arrived in what is nowWisconsin, he believed he had reached China—until he saw Winnebago Indians.
from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Ready Resources
The Mini Page provides ideas for websites, books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics.
On the Web: •
www.uscg.mil/history/articles/ LighthouseCurriculum.pdf
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http://seagrant.wisc.edu/kidsteachers/index.asp
At the library: • “The Great Lakes” by Kathy Henderson • “Paddle-to-the-Sea” by Holling Clancy Holling
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This map shows North America when glaciers covered much of Canada and the northern United States.
How did the lakes form? Scientists believe that the Great Lakes area was once part of the Atlantic
Ocean. They have found fossils from sea creatures around the lakes. Thousands of years ago,
a glacier (GLAY-shur), or river of ice, spread across the land in much of the Northern Hemisphere. The ice and rocks frozen in it were heavy, and when the ice began to melt, there were large holes left. Some water drained into channels, which became rivers. Some collected in the holes and became the Great Lakes.
Settling and working in the Great Lakes area Soon more people moved
west from Europe and the East Coast of North America. Some settled in the Great Lakes area. They fished and used the large forests for lumber.
© 2010 Universal Uclick Freshwater Oceans Have you ever visited Settlers also gathered
furs of native animals. They began mining iron and copper from the ground. Ships moved these items around on the lakes.
from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Great Lakes TRY ’N FIND
Words that remind us of the Great Lakes are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used more than once. See if you can find: CANADA, CANAL, CITY, COLD, ERIE, FISH, FRESH, FUR, GLACIER, HURON, IRON, LAKES, LIGHTHOUSE, LOCK, LUMBER, MICHIGAN, ONTARIO, QUADRILLION, RIVERS, SHIP, SHIPWRECK, STATE, SUPERIOR, WATER.
THE GREAT LAKES ARE GREAT BIG!
NO I L L I R D A U Q H NM R VO N L U E S U OH T H G I L RE R T O M GP I H S O V C A ED I U A C B Y T I CE A H K IH FR H R K E
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CS U P ER I O R S A T NG S AE R U J P C O L D A L O A B LR L A N A C W A T E R R N V GF W H X V K C E R W P I H S
the Great Lakes? These huge bodies of water in the northern United States and southern Canada attract many tourists. They’re also important to transportation and industry in some of our states. This week, The Mini
Page finds out more about these amazing lakes.
Five lakes The five lakes that
make up the Great Lakes are: • Lake Huron • LakeOntario • LakeMichigan • Lake Erie • Lake Superior*
The largest of the
Great Lakes is Lake Superior. It is also the coldest and the deepest. The smallest is Lake Ontario. The Niagara River flows over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario.
Lake Superior October 17, 2010 from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Discover the Great Lakes
Five lakes, one system We think of the Great
1 4 Lake Michigan Lake Huron 2 3
Lake Erie Lake Ontario
This image of the Great Lakes was taken in March 2010 from the Terra satellite. Lake Erie appears so much greener and lighter than the others partly because it is shallower. Nutrients from farmland nearby are carried into Lake Erie by rain. These also make it look different from the other lakes.
The Great Lakes are bordered by eight states and one Canadian province. Do you live close to them? Look at a map of the United States. How many states would you have to travel through to reach the nearest Great Lake?
*You can remember the lakes’ names by spelling HOMES with their first initials.
Lakes as five different bodies of water. But they are all linked together. 1. From Lake Superior, water flows down the St. Marys River into lakes Huron and Michigan. 2. From Lake Huron,
the St. Clair River carries water to Lake St. Clair, and from there the Detroit River flows into Lake Erie. 3. From Lake Erie,
the water goes down the Niagara River and over the famous falls into Lake Ontario. 4. After that, the
water flows through several small lakes and then down the St. Lawrence River, where it finally reaches the Atlantic Ocean. The entire journey for
a drop of water is more than 2,000 miles!
photo courtesy NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
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