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ACROSS 2. The Exxon Oil Company’s original name 4. Former winter home of Thomas Edison 5. Popular ingredient in modern fertilizers mined in 6. Means “fat point” in Spanish 7. Not an amateur or a beginner; experienced in one’s field A weekly magazine for young students of Florida History Hard-Working DOWN 1. Commercial activity in general; trade, business, commerce Florida 3. County seat of Glades County

Signs of industry are Florida Industries Span everywhere around Florida. Did you know citrus crops and tourism the Entire World! make up about half of If you’d like to make any editorial comments about our paper, Florida’s economy? please write to us at [email protected]. ave you ever walked through your neighborhood and seen clouds of dust or heard the rumble of big tractors, the whirring of saws and the pounding of hammers as aH new home goes up for a family to live in? Have you ever seen fishing boats come in off the ocean with nets full of wriggling fish, bound for dinner Florida’s Sports Industry Overview on your table? Or have you ever heard the honking of a big lumber truck, loaded high with heavy boards to be made into homes, offices Professional Football Professional Basketball or doghouses? Miami Dolphins Miami Heat Everywhere you look, you can see the signs of industry Jacksonville Jaguars Orlando Magic Florida sports is a huge industry! Just look at the number of Tampa Bay Buccaneers professional teams Florida has to choose from. Find your (commercial activity, trade or business). Products are made, Professional Hockey favorite Florida team on the Internet. grown, found or dug up right here in Florida and finding Professional Florida Panthers, Fort their way to other places. Many people outside of Florida Florida Marlins, Miami Lauderdale think that our state is only about oranges and tourist Tampa Bay Devil Rays Tampa Bay Lightning Write down all the Web sites you can find on another sheet of paper. Now go and learn more about your favorite attractions. They’re only half right! It’s true that citrus Florida team. crops and tourism make up about half of Florida’s Baseball Sites economy, but there’s much more to Florida industry Spring training begins in February and ends with the opening of the regular season in April. than that. People all over the country are living in City Team houses built from Florida wood, putting gas in their Bradenton Pittsburg Pirates McKechnie Field cars from Florida oil wells and fertilizing their gardens Clearwater Philadelphia Phillies Jack Russell Stadium It’s the year 2035, and you’re Dunedin Toronto Blue Jays Dunedin Stadium about 40 years old. with Florida phosphorus, most times without even Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Minnesota Twins Lee County Sports Complex Over the years, you have knowing it. Fort Myers Boston Red Sox City of Palms Park become the richest person in In this issue of Florida Studies Weekly, we’ll look at Jupiter St. Louis Cardinals Kissimmee Florida. Before you begin to just a few of the industries that make life in Florida the Lakeland Detroit Tigers Marchant Stadium way it is. Some of these industries are new to the state, and Melbourne Florida Marlins Space Coast Stadium write, think about how you Orlando Atlanta Braves Disney Sports Complex became the richest person others have been around as long as there have been people Port. St. Lucie New York Mets Port St. Lucie Complex here. But they’re all important to Floridians and the world. St. Petersburg Tampa Bay Devil Rays in Florida. Now write Sarasota to tell how you became Tampa Legends Field West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium the richest person in Florida. Be sure to use proper Winter Haven Cleveland Indians Chain O’ Lakes grammar, spelling and punctuation. Good luck! Kids Explore Lagoon ecently, two fourth grade classes from Odyssey items around the Lagoon that the students tracked RCharter School visited the Indian River Lagoon down and found using these hi-tech handheld 5. What product makes up almost half of the state’s fishing near Vero Beach to learn about the environment devices. Think and Review Questions around them as well as some neat technological ways Activities at the lagoon focused on teaching 1. Name the other Florida industries, besides the tourist and industry? to have fun. students to respect and care for the environment. agricultural industries. 6. Who first discovered phosphate in Florida? The students learned about the manatee, an Students looked for signs posted to protect the 7. What three things make Florida’s ports so great? endangered animal. Do you remember learning about wildlife and learned to classify different species. 2. At the turn of the century, what was considered Florida’s the manatee in a previous Florida Studies Weekly They also attended a recycling workshop that most important industry? 8. Compare and contrast the counties of Charlotte, Glades and article? Rangers at the Indian River Lagoon are doing reminded them to put their trash in proper Lee. their best to help protect this awesome animal. The recycling bins. 3. What important product is made from Florida phosphate students learned that driving their boats slowly is one The Indian River Lagoon is a great place for and used all over the world? 9. Why is the Mediterranean fruit fly considered a pest? way to help protect the manatee and keep them safe. students of all ages to learn about the wonderful 4. What large oil company was once Humble Oil and first The students also participated in a scavenger hunt world around them. For more information please Thank you Shelby for the beautiful using Global Positioning Systems. There were several visit www.indianriverlagoon.org discovered oil in Florida? drawing of the Indian River Lagoon. TIMELINE

Week 29 of 32 • Page 2 oil well in the south of Florida, the company has Hard-Working come a long way. Ever hear of the Exxon Company? Your parents may have filled up the car at an Exxon gas station this morning. “Humble” beginnings for Florida such a world leader in energy production, eh? Florida Lumber Florida Ports makes them so great? The waters are deep, the railroads and Disney World Opens, highways are numerous and close, and maybe above all, the Is your home made at least partly of wood? Most 1970 When it comes right down to it, Florida has a great deal to weather is almost always great. This means that all kinds homes are when it comes right down to it, and so be proud of. Some of the state’s wonders are known only of things from around the world wind up in Florida, and all your answer is probably “yes!” That may be why to Floridians. Others have made Florida famous all over the kinds of things from Florida wind up all over the world. Food, cutting down Florida’s trees to make lumber for country. But Florida is world famous for at least one thing: machines, minerals, chemicals, lumber and cars come into and building has always been big business in our state. Our state’s seaports are some of the best around. Modern ship go out of Florida’s eight major ports all day, every day. And as Long ago, Florida natives knocked trees down by Oil is a big business around the world today. Florida captains sail from around the world to Florida’s harbors. What long as Florida sticks out into the ocean, its ports will keep on burning them and then burned and scraped them into started producing oil in the 1940s. being busy. hollow canoes. Later on, explorers discovered that Florida lumber was terrific for building ships. By the Shrimp Ahoy! mid-1800s, many of the towns in Florida had been Dolphins’ Undefeated People in Florida have depended on the ocean for food built near lumber mills. Today, lumber companies Season, 1972 since before anyone can remember. If you look at what are careful not to cut down too many trees, or cut too archaeologists have discovered about Florida’s first humans, often in the same place, and most lumber companies you’ll find that they ate turtles, clams, oysters and even plant several trees for every tree they cut down. It manatees. Fortunately, nowadays, people don’t eat manatee, wouldn’t do at all to run out of trees! But one thing’s but when it comes to making a living pulling food out of the for sure—as long as there are things to build out of ocean, some things never change. Fishing is still big Florida wood, Florida’s lumber industry will keep going business and pretty much always has been. In the early 1800s, strong. ships carried fish from Florida to Cuba in big aquariums built into their hulls. Later, fishermen kept fish fresh by packing Famous for Phosphate Mariel Refugees Arrive them in ice. Oysters, red snapper, mullet and sea trout were If you’ve ever bought fertilizer to use on your Making lumber has always been a big industry in in Miami, 1980-1983 Florida’s ports welcome ships from around the world. shipped all over the place from Florida. At the turn of the 20th garden, then you’ve probably had an up-close-and- Florida. Food, machines, minerals, chemicals, lumber and cars are some of the many things that come in and go out century, fishing was even considered Florida’s most important personal experience with one of Florida’s most of Florida. industry. These days, shrimp’s the catch of the day, and though popular minerals: phosphate. Phosphate is the biggest Florida fishermen catch tons of lobster, crab and snapper as source for phosphorus, the main ingredient in most well, shrimping makes up a whopping 40 percent of the state’s fertilizers. Phosphate in Florida was discovered fishing industry. That’s a big deal for a shrimp! in Marion County about 100 years ago by a man named Albertus Vogt. Since then, it’s become a huge Oil Tidbit industry. Each year, Florida mines millions of tons of concentrated phosphate rock. It all means about $3 Operation Desert The discovery of oil is big business all around the world. We billion a year for Florida’s economy. In fact, Florida Storm, 1990 use oil and the products that come from it to run our model is responsible for about one-third of the phosphate airplanes, lawn mowers, boats, trains, planes and automobiles— mined in the entire world. and so many other things. Because much of the oil used in the As the world’s population gets bigger, so will the United States comes from foreign countries, anytime anyone need for food. As the need for food increases, so discovers oil here in the good old U.S.A., it’s a big deal. Well, does the need for effective fertilizers! It looks like Phosphate is one of Florida’s most popular minerals in the 1940s, Florida joined other states in our country that Florida’s phosphate industry is just going to get more and is a huge industry. Florida has 30 percent of the produce oil. Florida’s first oil well was in Collier County, in a world’s phosphate. and more important as time goes on. These shrimp boats help catch about 40 percent of place called Sunnyland. The oil company that discovered it was Florida’s fishing industry. called Humble, and while that word may describe one lonely Persian Gulf War Ended, 1991

Self-Control Charlotte, Glades, Mediterranean ave you ever been and Lee Counties Fruit Fly Hsure you were n the southern part of our state, right about something fronting the Gulf of Mexico, is little Charlotte County. Charlotte Business seems to be that your parents I he fruit fly is just a tiny insect, not much bigger than the head of County is just 17 miles from north to south, but here’s something a booming in Florida. Was there ever thought was wrong? Maybe you really think you should little strange: It has 120 miles of coastline! How is that possible? Well, Ta pin. Just to look at it, you’d never think it could harm a flea. But be allowed to stay up until 2 a.m. and eat all the popcorn, between the Peace River, the Myakka River and Charlotte Harbor, a time when business wasn’t doing look out! This is one little bug who can really do some damage! You candy and ice cream you can. Sounds good to you, right? this is a county with a bunch of water in it. And wherever land meets see, baby flies (larvae) like to eat ripening fruit. Well, you might rethink that decision when you wake up so well? water, there’s coastline. Charlotte County’s seat is Punta Gorda, which is When they do, the fruit falls off the tree with a terrible stomachache from the sweets and very Spanish for “fat point.” and is ruined. It might be okay if flies only red eyes from not getting enough sleep. You might say Just east of Charlotte County is Glades County, one of five counties ______ruin an orange here and there, but fruit flies that you didn’t use self-control in that situation. Well, one that border Lake Okeechobee. It’s the site of a large Seminole Indian have been known to destroy entire crops. great character trait to develop is self-control. You could Reservation, and most of the county’s population lives bordering the lake. Oranges, watermelons, papayas use self-control by telling yourself you’ll have one bowl of ______popcorn and one scoop of ice cream and stay up till 10 p.m. The cattle industry is spreading and spreading in Glades County. Today, and cherries are all favorites watching a good movie. That way, you won’t be too tired to it covers more than 400,000 Glades County acres. The county seat is of these pesky little have a productive day tomorrow. But self-control is used Moore Haven. ______insects. Farmers are in many other situations, like choosing whom you hang out Lee County is dominated by its fighting the flies with, what kinds of movies you watch and books you read, county seat, Fort Meyers, which with chemicals, ______what kind of language you use, and pretty much every borders on the Gulf of Mexico. The but dedicated other decision you can make in your life. The key to self- city was once the winter home of people are control is not necessarily going for the decision that will Thomas Edison. These days, Lee ______always looking County is a paradise for people who make you or those you want to impress happy, but what will for better and love the water. Sanibel and Captiva, be best for you in the long run. It might take some work, safer ways to two enchanting islands right off ______but using self-control definitely pays off in the end. Just get rid of them. the coast, make Lee County a This question is meant as an enrichment activity. Extra ask the kid with the stomachache and droopy eyes. He’s In any case, this is wishing he’d used a little more self-control! tourist center to be reckoned with. research is required. Your teacher has the answer in the one little insect that is

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