Introduction
All About Presidents
by Jenae Raban
EDU 214 - Preparing Teachers to Use Technology
Nevada State College
February 1, 2016
2nd grade level
Task
This WebQuest is designed to teach you all about Presidents. In February we celebrate President's Day. So let's learn about Presidents! Why do we have Presidents? Who is President? How many Presidents have we had? Who are they? Now pick one and write about them: Their name, their birthday, were/are they married, do/did they have children, what made them special, etc.
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Process
This month (February) we will be learning All About Presidents in class. Presidents are very important to the United States because they are the leaders of our country. We will be learning what a President does, How many Presidents have we had, Why do celebrate President’s Day, and so on.
After we have learned some of this fun information we will focus on Presidents from our past and you will need to pick 1 President you are interested in and research them. Please let me know as soon as you have made a choice to make sure that president hasn’t been chosen by someone else.
Some of the Presidents you can choose from:
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
William J. Clinton
George W. Bush
After you have selected your president you are to answer the following questions:
1. Presidents full name
2. Date of birth
3. The years he served as president
4. The number of terms completed (and if they were fully completed)
5. Who the vice president was?
6. Some personal facts like were they married?, Did they have children? What age did they become president? What college did they attend, if any?
7. Any influential impact he had on the U.S.
8. Are they still living?
Here are a few websites to help you in your research:
https://kids.usa.gov/teens/goverment/presidents/index.shtmlFun Facts!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/timeline-guide-us-presidents
Evaluation
Your research will need to be presented in one of the following ways: poster board, brochure, story book, powerpoint, or prezi. This presentation should be engaging and informative in a way that will capture your audience. Please ensure that you use real facts.
Best of Luck!
This is how your research and presentation will be evaluated.
| Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Qualified 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performed Research | Answered only 50% of the research questions | Finished 75% of the research | Met all research requirements | Met the minimum requirements but went beyond to provide more information | |
| Presentation | Very little information with errors | Has sufficient informations with minor errors | All information required, no errors made | All information plus more, no errors, extraordinary presentation | |
| Presentation Skills | Very little effort | Mediocre effort | Good effort | Wonderful effort | |
| Total Points: |
Conclusion
How can research be helpful to you? Why is history important? Can we learn from the past? Hopefully you have had some of these questions answered during this lesson!
When you have completed this assignment:
*You will understand what a president is
*What he does
*Why we have a president
*Why we celebrate President's day
*You will know how to research information and present it