Social+Studies

A great site to use for the upcoming Presidential Election with your students. http://www.lesley.edu/growingvoters/

Great website to use for the presidential election. [|www.macmillanmh.com/projectpresidency]

Great interactive site with audio and video on the first Thanksgiving. [|Scholastic First Thanksgiving]

Fourth Grade Exploring Maryland [|Maryland With Pride]

[|Mrs. Travis' Classroom]


 * // Inauguration Day Lessons and Activities // **

This website provides information about past inaugurations and as you turn to each page at the bottom it lists the events of the day. [|Inauguration Day]  Hail to the Chief: Inauguration Lessons Every four years on January 20, an important event occurs in the United States: A president takes the Oath of Office during an inauguration ceremony. Education World offers ten super activities to help students learn about and commemorate the inauguration. Included: Activities in which students write letters to the president, create presidential portraits, complete an inauguration trivia hunt, and much more! [|Hail to the Chief Inauguration Lessons] This website provides lesson plans for creating a graph on the age of the presidents (mean, median,mode,range) [|Math Presidental Ages] This website has many activities that you can do throughout the year with your students in regards to the White House and the Executive Branch [|White House for Kids] PBS NewsHour Teacher Center – contains a wide variety of teaching suggestions for classroom activities focused on the Inauguration and other current events; also features a teacher’s forum devoted to discussing Barack Obama’s Inauguration nch [|PBS Inauguration] Defenders of Justice - In this activity for grades 3-5, students will summarize biographies of individuals who fought racism and helped make it possible to have our first African American President of the United States. Along the way they'll discover that they, too, can take a stand for justice and equality and make the world a better place today. [|Defenders of Justice] In this early grades activity, students will discuss the significance of Barack Obama's presidency and create cards welcoming his children to the White House. [|Cards to Malia and Sasha]