U.S. Presidents
updated October 20, 2024
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Rationale
2020 being an election year, I will be doing a block on the U.S. Presidents even though my students were younger than eighth grade age. I plan to pair it, later
in the year, with a block on Fearless Women Who Made American History. This takes the place of my Virtuous People block.
These are my notes as my thoughts about this block begin to come together.
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My curated collection of visuals! Browse sample main lesson book pages, watercolor paintings, chalkboard drawings, etc. for
the topics of U.S. Presidents and U.S. History.
Other Helpful Links
General President Books
List of Presidents
18th Century
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
19th Century
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S Grant
19. Rutherford B Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
20th Century
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D Roosevelt
33. Harry S Truman
34. Dwight D Eisenhower
35. John F Kennedy
we have an authentic John F Kennedy campaign button which I found attached to the curtain in my grandmother's laundry room (the house was built in 1959)
36. Lyndon B Johnson
37. Richard M Nixon
38. Gerald R Ford
39. James Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H W Bush
42. William Jefferson Clinton
21st Century
43. George W Bush
44. Barack Obama
45. Donald Trump
46. Joseph R Biden
My blog posts from teaching this topic:
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