2SSFamousAmericans

=Famous Americans=

Abraham Lincoln  **Visit with Abraham Lincoln**   Web site offers a large selection of classroom activities and resources to explore on the life and career of President Abraham Lincoln. A quiz, picture gallery, and animation of addition of the states can also be accessed from this site. [|http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html] **Printable Student Worksheet on Lincoln**  http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/history/us/pres/lincoln/face.shtml **BrainPop Movie**- see your librarian or technologist for campus login  [] George Washington  **Learn about George Washington**   Students will learn about George Washington's life, his career, and his contributions to our country. Basic map skills, hands-on crafts, and vocabulary cards are all written in to this unit of five lesson plans. @http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/K99George.pdf **Printable Student Worksheet on Washington**  http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/history/us/pres/washington/ **BrainPop Movie**- see your librarian or technologist for campus login  [] Thomas Jefferson  @http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/pres/jefferson/ Martin Luther King, Jr. **Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Web Hunt**  For an easier online web hunt version based on Dr. King's life and accomplishments, elementary students can try this site. They will be using a student-created timeline to answer the questions. [] **A Teeny Tiny Book on Dr. Martin Luther King**  Print and make copies of this Dr. King mini-book to share with students and allow them each to take home their own copy. [] **Adjectives of Martin Luther King, Jr.**  Students will list 6 adjectives describing Martin Luther King, Jr. and write a complete sentence for each adjective. Click [|here] to download the document. George Washington Carver  @http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/recipes/peanutrecipes.html @http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/recipes/sweetpotatoes.html @http://www.nps.gov/gwca/expanded/peanut.htm