A webquest for 4th grade students
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This web quest is designed
to help kids learn about the State of Maine.
Click the All about Maine link below
to get started. Use your back button to return to this page after answering
each section of questions.
Download an answer sheet in PDF.
All about Maine, click the tree of facts:
1. What is the population of Maine?
2. What is the name of Maine's highest mountain and
how high is it?
3. What is the land size of Maine in square miles?
1. What are the three branches of government?
2. How many Senators does the state government have?
3. How long does a senator serve in office?
4. How many representatives are elected
to the State House of Representatives?
Famous people from Maine:
1. Who are 3 famous people from Maine and what are they famous for?
Maine History time line:
1. What is important about the year 1820?
2. What is significant about 1866?
3. What was created in 1968?
4. In 1860, who was named Abraham Lincoln's Vice President?
5. In 1948 Margaret Chase Smith was elected as
the first women to the _________?
1. What is the state flower?
2. What is the state insect?
3. What is the state animal?
4. What is the state bird?
5. What is the state cat?
Lets find out about some products from Maine.
1. Name three products from Maine.
What about potatoes? Check out the Maine Potato Board web site to answer these questions.
1. How long have potatoes been farmed in Maine and
who brought them to Maine?
2. What county in Maine was the top producer
of potatoes in the nation between 1928-1958?
3. Click on the processing link and list three types
of processed potatoes.
Click Farm Trivia to answer the next question.
1. List three interesting facts about farming in Maine.
After answering all of the questions above, click here to explore the games section.
K. Pelkey
Burchard Dunn Elementary School
New Gloucester, Maine U.S.A.
last updated on 4/14/05
e-mail to kpelkey@msad15.org
State of Maine Kids page www.state.me.us/sos/kids/