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In this President Calvin Coolidge activity, students read a 4 page description of the life and presidency of President Calvin Coolidge. This reading discusses his upbringing, career, family and death. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions about the information they just read. The answers are on the last page.
A full and thoughtful lesson includes links, handouts, guided viewing worksheets, and great extension activities. Upper graders will examine extreme politics, propaganda, hyper-partisanship, and the 1928 presidential election. They engage in class discussion and create a presentation based on what they learned from viewing the related videos.
Eleventh graders interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this 1920's America lesson, 11th graders compare and contrast the policies of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Students create charts that feature their findings.
In this Father's Day instructional activity, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and writing. Students complete 12 activities on Father's Day.
In this 20th century history learning exercise, students respond to 50 multiple choice questions about events and significant figures of 1920's America.
Students evaluate presidencies. For this presidential history lesson, students research the lives and accomplishments of presidents in order to participate in a simulation that requires them to imagine how they might act as contestants on MTV"s "Real World."
Students send presidents to the "real world." In this presidential history lesson, students research selected presidents and then participate in a simulation based on MTV's Real World to determine how the presidents would relate to one another.
Do you have a report writing assignment coming up? Emerging writers apply a step-by-step process to write a report. They begin by identifying their topic and locating resources. They use bibliography cards, answer questions, write a rough draft including a bibliography, edit, revise and then write a final!
Young scholars use various reading strategies to improve comprehension. In this reading instructional activity, students use choral reading, predictions, visualization and sequencing to increase comprehension. Young scholars answer questions and illustrate the story. Students research facts about elephants.
Youngsters create a museum display. Using historically accurate designs, they are asked to design and build a museum display for a local museum (pretend letter). Then research, and build a display to submit for viewing at the 'museum'. This project can be adapted to many different scenarios.