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Around the World with First Lady Pat Nixon

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Travel the world with the First Lady!  Academics study images from Pat Nixon's travels as First Lady to discover her role in Richard Nixon's presidency. Historians match images to world locations, complete a worksheet, and participate in...
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Tim and Pat at the Store: Bar Graphs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Do you like candy? Tim and Pat go to the candy store every day after school. Can you use the chart to determine how much money they spend each day? Does one spend more than the other? 
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Guess the Word - Pat

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this guess the word instructional activity, students build on the word "pat" and change letters to form new words. Students complete 9 problems.
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Pat-a-Cake

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this "Pat-a-Cake" worksheet, students read the poem, review 6 sight words and color and arrange the 10 pictures in chronological order.
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Comparing and Contrasting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Analyze historical biographies. Young scholars compare and contrast the biographies of Susan B. Anthony and Pat Nixon. They construct graphic organizers, answer critical thinking questions, complete a formative assessment.
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Patting Juba

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify hardships encountered by students born into slavery through the interpretation of songs and images.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Politics of Change

For Students 8th - 12th
Empty rhetoric in Washington timelessly inspires political cartoons. Examine this concept through an analysis handout, which features a cartoon by Pat Oliphant (archived work is linked for possible extension activities). Although this...
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Ten Red Apples Flannel Board Set

For Teachers Pre-K - K
When you finish reading Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins, give your kindergartners these felt pieces for their felt storyboard. The pieces include big red apples, farmers, animals, and a big apple tree.
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this pie chart worksheet, students use the pie chart to add the amount of time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each day of the week. Students answer 2 questions about the table.
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this bar graphs worksheet, students use the bar graph to add how much time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each week. Students complete the table and answer 3 questions.
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Clap, Pat, Click

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice the art of skip counting to help them find the answer to problems involving equal groups. They are encouraged to make the link between "whisper" counting with body percussion and solving multiplication facts.
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What Does the Government Do Right?

For Students 8th - 12th
Challenge your class to reevaluate preconceived notions about government with this political cartoon analysis. An image presents a clear example of irony, in which a disgruntled American complains about his government, yet fails to see...
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The Doorbell Rang

For Students 1st - 3rd
Using the Pat Hutchins book The Doorbell Rang, introduce your learners to division using this simple exercise. They start with either 16, 24, or 32 cookies and consider how many friends they could share this number of cookies with. Note...
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Citing MLA Style Worksheet

For Students 7th - 12th
By the time they hit college, your kids will already have MLA citations down pat! Provide them with this packet to practice citing different sources using the MLA format. Four different resources are shown, and future researchers must...
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Don't Call Me Special

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Introduce young learners to the idea of disabilities and making friends with children who are different than they are. Using Don't Call Me Special - A First Look at Disability by Pat Thomas, learners are guided through the new vocabulary...
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Can you Identify the First Lady?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Guess Who? The first lady edition! Scholars read documents to figure out the first lady that is being described. The activity focuses on Pat Nixon, the wife of President Richard Nixon. Academics then work in pairs and share their...
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Exploring Figurative Language in Fiction and Nonfiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A reading of Pat Street's There's a Frog in My Throat launches a study of figurative language. Using a pocket chart, display one phrase containing figurative language. Class members choose the best explanation from three choices offered....
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Pata Pata Pat Pat

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils are exposed to the arts with a simple, introductory rhythm/dance activity which can lead into the traditional Pata Pata folk dance, or dance in general.
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Using Transitions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Transitions, words that reveal the relationship between two ideas, are the subject of a presentation that provides color-coded illustrations to show viewers how this part of speech functions in sentences. The PowerPoint concludes with an...
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"Aaaaaa!!!!" It's Okay, Baby!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Your kindergarten or first grade class works on recognizing the /a/ sound in spoken words. Use the fun tongue twister to help remember the target sound, and practice writing the letter a. Then have them write words that use this target...
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People for Peace Project

Get Your Angries Out

For Teachers K - 3rd
Help your little ones manage their big feelings. A therapeutic worksheet from Dr. Lynne Namka's The Mad Family Gets Their Mads Out guides kids through checking their emotions and breathing through their anger, and eventually making a...
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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading Pat Hutchins’ Rosie’s Walk, have your young cartographers create a map of Rosie’s walk. Then lead them on a walk around the school. When you return class members sequence the walk by making a list of how the class got from...
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My Manners Matter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine behavior. In this polite manners lesson, students will determine appropriate responses to different situations they may experience at school. They will listen to the story My Manners Matter by Pat Thomas and contribute...
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Clinton's Farewell to the Nation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the newspaper article, "A Pat and a Nudge from Outgoing Chief," about President Clinton's end of term actions, then discuss it.

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