Ms. Pasquinelli's 3rd Grade Walking Tour of Washington, D.C.

Use your D.C. walking tour map and this information sheet to highlight your journey around Washington, D.C. Once you have visited the landmark by clicking on the website link below, highlight it on the map. Have fun and don’t get lost!

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- Did you know, when the White House was built it was originally gray.
The land on which the White House stands is 18 acres.
1,000,000 tourists visit the White House each year.
At the White House you can find a bowling alley, swimming pool, and a movie theater.

(see White House map). Scroll down the page and click on any one of the White House rooms to view it.

Take the 555-foot, minute-long elevator ride to the top of the worlds tallest marble structure (built1848-1884). Enjoy the city’s best views. On Saturdays, you can walk down the 897 steps.

This 300-foot-long set of black granite tablets names the 57,213 United States soldiers killed in Vietnam.

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial 1

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial 2

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial 3

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial 4

The 36 columns represent the states of the Union in 1865. Lincoln’s giant statue faces the 2,000 foot-long reflecting pool. Here in 1963, 200,000 people heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., give his famous, “I have a dream” civil rights speech.

honoring the author of the Declaration of Independence.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where the United States prints all its bonds, postage stamps, and paper money (25.5 million is printed daily).

This vast museum and research center was a gift of British scientist James Smithson.

The most popular museum in the world housed the plane that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis,” and the X-1 rocket plane that broke the sound barrier.

This is the center of town. Here, on Capital Hill, Senators and Representatives debate new laws.

One of the world’s largest libraries. It holds millions of books, photographs, movies, document, and artifacts.

From October to June, nine justices decide such history-making cases as Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which ended state-supported racial segregation in public schools.