United States--Nebraska and Nevada

Most of Nebraska's land is used for farming.  It's the only state to take it's nickname from a college--the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.  The college took the name from the cornhusking contests farmers used to hold.  We decided to have a corn husking contest, too. 

Nevada is famous for it's casinos, live entertainment and weddings, but I couldn't make a pretend casino, so we decided to learn about the Hoover Dam.  We made dams out of popsicle sticks and tested to see which one held back water the best. 

our riverbed

The girls were the only ones home from this project--here they are making a dam.



Here are our dams.

the girls gave up on the popsicle stick dam and made an earthen one instead