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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Thanksgiving
In this Thanksgiving vocabulary worksheet, students select the best choice to complete the sentence about Thanksgiving. The worksheet challenges students with complex words.
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Washington's Birthday
In this Washington's Birthday worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, unscrambling sentences, writing questions, take a survey, and...
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U.S. Penny to Get Four New Designs
Students look at U.S. currency and read about plans to change the back of U.S. pennies. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces a news article with a discussion of money and a vocabulary activity, then...
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Hooray for the Red, White and Blue!
Students recognize the states in the continental United States and find their state. In this patriotic symbols lesson, students explore unfair taxation practices. Students understand the benefits of democracy participate in activities...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Martin Luther King, Jr. for Early Elementary
Students study the accomplishments of Martin Luther, Jr. and investigate how he worked to further tolerance and respect for others.
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Black History Month Cloze worksheet
In this Black History month cloze instructional activity, students fill in ten blanks with the correct words from a word bank. Students read the text about Black History month.
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Cinco de Mayo Lessons with "La Vida"
Cinco de Mayo lessons provide a way to teach students about history, art, music, and regional food.
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Our Community Helpers
Pupils explore community helpers in order to explain how they fit into their community and the world.
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Our Community Helpers
Students identify important aspects of community and culture that strengthen relationships. They discuss pictures of national symbols.
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Oh Say Can You See?
Students discover the meaning of patriotism through literature, songs, and poetry. They also identify patriotic symbols and activities such as the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner, the bald eagle, and monuments.
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Fact and Opinion
In this fact and opinion instructional activity, students review the difference between fact and opinion and then identify 10 sentences as either fact or opinion.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War
A detailed lesson plan of Abraham Lincoln to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. In a PDF file, the complete lesson is provided along with visual aides needed for the lesson. Draws on photographs and masks of Lincoln's face...
Library of Congress
Loc: With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Through a vast collection of articles, photographs, etc. the Library of Congress is offering an exhaustive exhibition in honor of the bicentennial celebration of President Abraham Lincoln.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
Celebrate our 16th president's birthday by learning more about his life and completing these classroom activities. Includes general information, lesson plans, speeches, images, and videos.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Cornell University Library exhibits the Bancroft copy of the Gettysburg Address, one of only five copies in the handwriting of Lincoln.
Read Works
Read Works: Happy Birthday!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
A&E Television
History.com: The First Thanksgiving Celebration
[Free Registration/Login Required] Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first...
Read Works
Read Works: Presidents' Day Is Here!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and how they are celebrated each year on President's Day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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University of Delaware: Abraham Lincoln: A Bicentennial Celebration: Portrait
Image of Abraham Lincoln.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: u.s. Presidents and Inaugurations
This collection of images from Smithsonian Libraries celebrates U.S. Presidents while providing a glimpse of the presidencies and inaugurations of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln
The Smithsonian Institution provides a detailed lesson plan over Abraham Lincoln to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. In a PDF file, the complete lesson is provided along with visual aides needed for the lesson. Draws on...
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Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
The Smithsonian Institution provides a detailed lesson plan over Abraham Lincoln to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. In a PDF file, the complete lesson is provided along with visual aides needed for the lesson. Draws on...
US National Archives
Nara: Congress Establishes Thanksgiving
From the National Archives, an essay on the establishment of the American holiday of Thanksgiving as a legal holiday starting with the original proclamation in 1789 celebrating it on different days or months up to the 1941 resolution...
Library of Congress
Loc: Learning Page: Primary Source Set: Thanksgiving
A set of primary documents that reflect the Mayflower, Plymouth, Puritans, the first Thanksgiving, and legislation for the holiday.