The U.S. Mint by DrewOn 9-13-2007, we went to the Philadelphia Mint. We saw lots of money and lots of big bags. The bags weighed over 1 ton each, and had 600,000 coins in them.
It was a cool process. The process is an artist makes a mold, then a roll of sheet metal gets cut, then the coins get stamped. The coins go into bags, and the bags go to banks.
Some of the scraps get melted and sold in the gift shop. They sell gold, copper and iron.
Did you know in the Philadelphia Mint's first 3 years of operation, they made 1,000,000 pennies. Today, it only takes about 3 hours to make that many pennies.
The Liberty Bell by EmilyI visited the Liberty Bell. It is in Philadelphia. The bell was for calling meatings, birthdays and announcements, but now it is for liberty.
Why is it for liberty is because for ladies it was for the right to vote and for others it was for concentrations camps and slavery.
Did you know that 1.5 million people visit the liberty bell once a year and if you can't see it in person you can see it on card stamps and coins. O, and John Pass and John Stow fix't the first crack but the bell crack't agin. And the bell sais Pouclame liberty throughout all the land.
We also visited Betty Ross's house and learned about sword fighting. It was fun. The end.
The National Aquarium by JakeI went to the National Aqarium in Baltimore, Maryland. We saw rays, sharks, angle fish and more. Also sea turtles, dolfins, and striped bass. Also sloths, monkies, parots and flamingos all in a rain forest.
The rain forest is endangered because people are chopping down trees for farming and bilding.
Sharks are in danger too because people like fin soup. We can help by not eating fin soup and not putting trash in the ocean too.
What I liked best of all (about the aquarium) is that it's cool and has lots of facks like shark skin was once used as sand paper. The whale shark is the biggest fish in the world. The most poison animal in the world is the poison dart frog. The end.
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