K
= Know: What do you already know about
Michigan?
 W= What: What do you want to know about
Michigan?
 L= Learned: What did you learn about
Michigan?
 Make
this chart in your notebook 
 Location
 Place
 Region
 Movement
 Human
Environment Interaction
Absolute
Location:
 See
Map
Relative
Location:
 Bordered by Ohio,
Indiana,
Wisconsin, and
Canada.
 Population:
9.883 million
 Language: English,
Spanish, Arabic, German,
Polish, French
 Temperature: 14 – 83
degrees F
 Area: 58,513 square
miles
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Erie
Superior
Became a state in 1837
 Name Mishigamaa = “large water”
 Religion
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Ethnicity
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79% Christian
17% Unaffiliated
79% White
14% African American
2.4% Asian
Ancestry
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22% German
12% Irish
10% English
Cars
are very
important!
Trains
Boats
Bridges
 Goods
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Livestock (cattle, chicken, turkey,
dairy)
Crops (corn, Christmas trees,
apples, cherries)
Cars
 Natural

Resources
Natural gas, iron ore, petroleum,
copper
 Services

Heath care, engineering, finance
University
of Michigan
Michigan State University
Wayne State University
Central Michigan University
Grand Valley State University
Western Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
 Is
there anything else you want to know
about Michigan?