State Project Part 1

1. Year of statehood: 1845.
2. Populations: 20,851, 820.
3. Capital: Austin.
4. Motto: Friendship.
5. Bird: Mockingbird.
6. Flower: Bluebonnet.
7. Tree: Pecan.
8. Song Title: Texas, our Texas.

9. Save a picture of the state flag, state shape, state bird, state flower, and state tree to your server folder. (Right clock on the picture on the interent/save picture or image) List the filenames below that you used to save the picture
LIST OF FILENAMES -POST

Texasflag
TexasShapeRedWhtBlue
Mockingbird
Bluebonnet
Pecan

10. Find 2 popular tourist attractions located in your state and know the following information for each ( Museum, Universities, National Forest, State Parks, Sports Team)

a. Name of each attraction
1. University of Texas (Austin)
2. Football: Dallas Cowboys
b. The city where each attraction is located.
1. Austin
2. Play at Texas stadium in Irving.

c. Give a brief description of each attraction
1. This university is home to more than 48,000 students, 2,700 faculty, and 19,000 staff members. It provides central Texas with a very educated workforce.
2. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
d. Save a picture of each tourist attraction to your server folder (ID#) List below the filenames you used when you saved the pictures.

UT, and UT2
Dallas Cowboys


11. Find 4 fast facts about your state. Remember you are trying to entertain so pick interesting facts that make your state UNIQUE.
a. 70% of the roughly 21 million people in Texas lives within 200 miles of Austin.
b. Texas possesses three of the Top Ten most populous cities in the U.S. - Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
c. Almost 10% of Texas is covered by forest which includes four national and five state forests.
d. Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.

12. List all sources used in finding your state information and pictures (EX: www.50states.com) include the following about each site:
a. Name
b. URL address,
c. date you accessed
d. Author of site (if there is one)
e. Date of posting/revision of site (if it appears on the bottom of the website page)

Sources:
Title: Texas State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song
http://www.50states.com/texas.htm
Date accessed: 2/26/2008
Date of revision: 2008

Stadium Picture:
http://assets.espn.go.com/media/travel/2006/1016/photo/dal740.jpg
Date Accessed: 2/26/2008

State tree picture:
http://www.bbqblanton.com/minpecan.jpg
2/26/2008

Dallas Cowboys Info:
Title: Wikipedia
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys
Date accessed: 2/26/2008
Date revised: Feb. 24, 2008

Title: Interesting facts about Texas
URL: http://web2.airmail.net/danb1/Txfacts.htm
Date accessed: 2/26/2008
Date revised: 2007

UT info:
Title: Campus Profile
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/welcome/profile.html
Date Revised: Jan 29, 2008

Pictures on State flower, bird, etc.
www.google.com (images)