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Kindergarten Presidents' Day U.S. History resources for GATE
February STEM STEAM Challenge: President's Day Edition
President's Day is a great time to honor our founding fathers. And what better way to honor our first president than by building a new monument? Using the listed materials, students will create a presidential pillar so that Washington's portrait (a quarter) can balance on top.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (diffe
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K - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Labor Day Emergent Reader
This little reader is the perfect way to explain what Labor Day is to elementary students. The book explains when Labor Day was celebrated, when it became an act by Congress and why is was created.
This would be a good resource to add to your Labor Day social studies or government unit on the holiday.
US History
Labor Day
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K - 5th
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Patriotic Math File Folder Games
9 Patriotic themed math file folders including: make ten, size sort, match number to quantity, match quantity to number, missing number, number/quantity/word puzzle, ABAB patterns, AABB patterns, shape match, and shape puzzle. Perfect for a preschool or kindergarten classroom in math centers, or for use at home with children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Good for President's Day, Fourth of July, Veteran's Day, Flag Day, or Memorial Day.
Partially fulfills Common Core Standar
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Presidents' Day STEM Center for Building Bricks
STEM Mats are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for donations6 Presidents' Day related
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K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
What is this Thing?
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Have you ever wandered through a museum, looked at an artifact, and wondered,
“What IS This Thing?”
So did Nancy Polette as she toured the Montgomery County Historical Society in Missouri.
As she wandered through the museum, she imagined a child of the 1800s suddenly appearing in her kitchen, at a mall, or in a classroom. How puzzled that child would be! A microwave, a blender, a cell phone, a computer, an escalator – what strange objects!
Just as a
Grades:
K - 12th
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Blunder or Brainstorm
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Fact & Fiction of Famous Inventors and Inventions
4th in the series, Nancy presents not only fact and fiction statements, but also offers an original limerick for each of the inventors. From Archimedes to the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell to Alfred Nobel. Students learn about the first friction match, the first computer program, the first car, Velcro®, Coca-Cola,® Smith Brothers’® Cough Drops, Colt’s revolver and more. Great for just re
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K - 12th
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Patriotic Literacy File Folder Games
Patriotic themed literacy file folders including: uppercase and lowercase letter match, missing letter, missing letter (group of 3), color match, opposites, go together, and beginning letter match. Perfect for a preschool or kindergarten classroom in literacy centers, or for use at home with children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Can be used for President's Day, Flag Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, or Veteran's Day!
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Damsel or Daredevil
Did Molly Pitcher hide in a well when bullets flew during the Battle of Monmouth? Could Sacagawea, the interpreter for Lewis and Clark, speak English? What did Jacqueline Cochran, Bessie Coleman, and Amelia Earhart have in common? What do Sarah Emma Edmonds and Frank Thompson have in common? Did critics of Susan B Anthony drag her through the streets because she supported women's rights? Who was a world famous photographer who captured on film the bombing of Moscow by the Germans, recorded the s
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K - 12th
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Trial or Triumph
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Nancy brings 30 contemporary actors and actresses, athletes, government officials, television stars, singers, and musicians into her Fact or Fiction series. Personalities include Barbara Walters, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Armstrong, Madeleine Albright, Alan Alda, and Tom Hanks. The question is posed "Fact or Fiction? Michael Landon was the top student in his graduating class" only to find he was 3rd from the bottom of the class, was very small, and w
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K - 12th
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Partner or Pleaser? Fact & Fiction of the First Ladies
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Whether in the background or out front promoting their causes, the First Ladies of the U.S. presidents make an interesting read and basis for classroom research as addressed in the Writing component of the Common Core Standards:
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. (The format of Fact or Fiction? i
Grades:
K - 12th
Patriotic Same and Different Clip Cards
Here are 24 Patriotic same & different clip task cards. Perfect for a preschool or kindergarten classroom, or for use in therapy with children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
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PreK - 1st
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Power or Politics?
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Was George Washington the 1st President of the United States?
Who put grizzly bears on the front lawn of the White House?
Which president dropped out of law school but still passed the New York law exam?
Who owed his election to the presidency to a cocker spaniel?
What was Chief Tecumseh’s curse on the Presidency?
What did Warren Harding’s and Richard Nixon’s Presidency have in common?
Which President was born with a different name?
Which President
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K - 12th
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George Washington Interactive Journal Activities (English only)
Learn about George Washington using these interactive journal activities that are simple enough for Kinder to complete and glue into their daily journals. Keep your students engaged and ready to learn! Each activity inclues information/details about his life. Included are 4 different activities to keep the learners engaged. You can use the examples provided, or have the students draw their own. Its up to you!
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
State Symbols Student Notebook
Two different levels of student notebooks that met the needs of my diverse GT 1st grade classroom. Either could be used with or without the more detailed partner project as a second step. Both can be used with provided resources in the Texas QR symbol research materials or with any other state/materials.
These are not specific to Texas expect for the cover. I can provide edits for each state on request or within updates.
Grades:
K - 2nd
Texas State Symbols Student Resources - Adv. Level
Two different levels of student notebooks that met the needs of my diverse GT 1st grade classroom. Either could be used with or without the more detailed partner project as a second step. Both can be used with provided resources in the Texas QR symbol research materials or with any other state/materials.
These are not specific to Texas expect for the cover. I can provide edits for each state on request or within updates.
Grades:
K - 2nd
Individualized Lesson Plan: Benjamin Franklin
Need an idea for teaching your 1st grade students about Benjamin Franklin? How about giving them a choice? This lesson plan was created for my own 1st grade gifted and talented class, however this could also be used for any regular ed classroom in need of some extra engagement. This product is geared for Georgia's 1st grade social studies standards.
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K - 2nd
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Texas State Menu
Allow for choice..
each student may choose a product to show what they learned about state symbols.
This menu was created with multiple learning styles and ability levels in mind and allows for varied levels of depth and complexity in student products.
A TOP TEN favorite in the student opinion!
That said, 80% chose two of six product choices. Sometimes they really focus on a certain type, you have a particular class, or they just needed that type at this point. I intend to update after ano
Grades:
K - 2nd
Presidents Day l Twos Day l February 22, 2022 day
Perfect for Wordle, crossword activity that involves studying the Presidents. I used this with my 2nd graders and they loved it!
Grades:
K - 2nd
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