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Standard 5-2.2

5-2.2 Summarize how technologies (such as railroads, the steel plow and barbed wire), federal policies (such as subsidies for the railroads and the Homestead Act), and access to natural resources affected the development of the West.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Highway 81 | From the Sky

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Crane | Eye Wonder

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The Eye Wonder team learns how cranes are used. D.V. speaks with a worker from Buchner Steel at a construction site about heavy lifting cranes and their parts.