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for ages 13 and over The Rushmore Ranger program was designed for participants to Welcome to tie Mount Mitiore Hatiojal complete while visiting the park. However, if you are unable to complete this booklet during your visit, feel free to mail the Memorial Witiore ganger program! completed booklet back to the park. A park ranger will review, sign and return it with a Junior Ranger badge. Be sure to include This program will help visitors IS years OP Watch the your name and mailing address. and older develop an understanding and 14-minute film, Mail your completed booklet to: : Mount Rushmore National appreciation for national parks with Memorial special interest in Mount Rushmore The Shrine at the Junior Ranger Program Borglum Visitor 13000 Highway 244, Bldg. 31, National Memorial. Complete this booklet Ste. 1 Center. Keystone, SO 57751 to earn a Rushmore Ranger certificate OP Complete the activities in (605) 574-2523 and the opportunity to purchase a www.nps.gov/moru the booklet. Rushmore Ranger patch from the Mount Special thanks to the Mount Rushmore Bookstores. OP Return the completed booklet to a ranger Rushmore Bookstores for their at the Visitor Center or Information financial support in the production of these booklets. Center to get the Rushmore Ranger certificate signed. To complete the program, do the following: ®Mount Rushmore Society Illustrated and designed by Lisa \jY Attend a ranger-led activity, if one is Horstman You may purchase patches and pencils in the Mount available. Write the name of the program or what Rushmore Bookstores located in the Information Center www.mountrushmoresociety.com the program was about on the lines below. and Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center.

Approximate time needed for completion: one hour. 2 MAP TRIVIA Ul II 111 II

© Circle your home state. © Draw the route you traveled from your home to Mount Rushmore. What is the national park area closest to your home?

3 AVENUE OF FLAGS

The 56 flags included on © Locate your state flag and write (4) What state was the first state the Avenue of Flags are the state and date admitted to the admitted to the Union? Union. What year? in alphabetical order. The State: additional six flags represent Date admitted to Union: the commonwealths, territories, and the District (2) Describe what you think the (5) What was the 50th state admitted symbols on your state flag represent. to the Union? What year? of Columbia.

(s) What year was American Samoa (3) Locate the flag. acquired? When was South Dakota admitted to the Union? (7) In what year was the District of What is written on the Columbia established? South Dakota flag?

4 Watch the 14-minute movie in the Lincoln Borglum Visitor MOVIE MANIA Center and circle "true" or "false" next to each statement.

T F conceived the T F Honeycombing allows for idea of a carving in the . precision in carving.

T F The carving of Mount Rushmore T Gutzon Borglum's son, began in 1927. Lincoln, finished the project. T F Gutzon Borglum selected the T F The carving ended in 1935. presidents to be carved on Mount T F Gutzon Borglum was 57 Rushmore. years old when he first arrived T F President Franklin Roosevelt in the Black Hills. dedicated Mount Rushmore in T F represents the 1927. preservation of the nation. T F first wanted to T F Jefferson represents the expansion carve western figures. of the nation.

T F 90% of Mount Rushmore was T F Roosevelt represents the carved using chisels. development of the nation. T F Gutzon Borglum utilized the T F Lincoln represents the birth pointing system of measurement of the nation. in creating Mount Rushmore.

S NAME THAT PRESIDENT

Write the name of the president that correctly completes the © © following was inaugurated at Federal Hall in City. received the Nobel Peace Prize. statements. The © © answers to these "preserved the Union" through the Civil War. drafted the Declaration of Independence. questions can © © be found on influenced the construction of the . issued the Emancipation Proclamation. displays near the front windows © © was Commander-in-Chief of the . was a naturalist and a friend of John Muir. of the Lincoln Borglum Visitor © © was responsible for the purchase of the said "A house divided against itself Center. Louisiana Territory. cannot stand."

6 EXPLORE THE EXHIBIT HALL

The following answers can be found © was by reading the displays in the another famous done by Gutzon Borglum. Exhibit Hall at the Lincoln Borglum © During the carving, a Visitor Center. Write the answers in carried workers and equipment to the top the space provided. of the mountain. © The workers hung off the mountain in © President Franklin D. Roosevelt was at chairs. Mount Rushmore for the © Drilling closely spaced holes to remove the dedication. rock is called . © President © The mountain was measured using the was at Mount Rushmore for the 50th system. anniversary dedication. © Ninety percent of the was © is the name removed using . of the mountain Gutzon Borglum was commissioned to carve in 1916. © A shop was located at the base of the mountain to © President sharpen drill bits. was not included on the first model. © The faces are carved from a rock called © The first on-site studio was a cabin. © was the favorite sport of the workers. 7 Look for answers to this crossword puzzle MONUMENTAL CROSSWORD in the Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center.

Across 0 President was in office when the was being constructed. © The first head to be carved on Mount Rushmore was President . 0 Mount Rushmore took years to carve. 0 Gutzon Borglum was years old in 1927 when he began carving Mount Rushmore. 0 Mount Rushmore was named after an from New York City named Charles Rushmore. 0 Mount Rushmore provided jobs for people during the Great .

Down © Doane first envisioned a carving in the Black Hills. 0 Gutzon Borglum named his son after his favorite president. 0 Mount Rushmore is under the jurisdiction of the Department of . 0 President was responsible for the . 0 Mount Rushmore represents 150 years of the history of . 8 WORD SCRAMBLE J K S S C A F F 0 L D L N S R M 1 A K T H D S M J A C K H A M M E R R C A Y C 0 U E S F R Q D C E M B Z M T 0 A p A F L A G K L Q R 0 Z M F E G R D S F Q F L M Z D H R J T X S M V Z F E W A X B N 0 P 1 V D B c X E A P R E S 1 D E N T A A E X B A R D Y S 0 F W Z M G 1 L J M 1 N B S R Q 0 s 0 A P 1 0 N D X 0 L 1 N C 0 L N T P S K N 0 P Y R C S Q M 0 S P T A R H E S Q M N E R B C B Q R S F A C 1 D V M N A 0 Find these words in \ A X Q M 0 U N T A 1 N M 0 E T M S the Word Scramble: i C T R S Q R M N R X G Y D B L 1 A Jefferson Dynamite Washington Granite Y 0 P Q L Z G D M X T R T B Z T Y Roosevelt Flag P X M D R 1 L L N T 0 B A 0 Q E Y Lincoln Democracy J 0 M N B D Q P U X N M A N E D E B R Y 0 Q N S L T M D E B F 1 N Z President Memorial Borglum Carvers Q Z S B 0 S U N C H A 1 R V N T 0 Jackhammer Bosun Chair P R T Z Q R T M N B D C P Q M N E Drill Scaffold 9 ONE MOUNT RUSHMORE, MPNY VOICES...

America has been described as "one lodge of It also means that different people may have many voices". It means that people from many different feelings about being at Mount Rushmore. cultures and many countries contribute to the Match the person to the left with something they . might say at Mount Rushmore by writing the number in the correct box.

J Mount Rushmore reminds me why I protect America and what it stands for.

J My oldest ancestors lived here.

J I like to teach my students about Mount Rushmore.

J My uniform tells you I take care of special places and wildlife.

_] Even though we're from another country, we feel like "one people" at Mount Rushmore.

J I hope my grandchildren will visit Mount Rushmore.

J I like learning about Mount Rushmore. I want to be a Rushmore Ranger\

J I like to take my children to visit Mount Rushmore.

J Mount Rushmore reminds me why I wanted to become a 10 U.S. citizen. PRESIDENTIAL NOTES

What does Mount Rushmore mean to you? Please record your observations, thoughts, poetry or sketches.

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