Inauguration Day is coming up on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. Always a momentous occasion, this year the interest is especially high.If you're looking for ways to broach the subject with your kids, check out a few of the following links (thanks to the folks at Curriculum Matters and Edwize for pointing them out).
Let me know if any of them are helpful! Also, drop me a comment and tell the rest of us your 1 Smart Approach to introducing your children to Inauguration Day!
- Events and discussion from a news-based site about Inauguration Day
- A quilted-together narrative of past Inaugural addresses from NPR
- The history and civics, from the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Inaugural poetry from TeacherVision
- Inauguration activities from Education World
- The history, from American Memory at the Library of Congress
- Lesson plans from the American Federation of Teachers
3 comments:
My kids are still young - 5 1/2, 4 and 1 so we'll be using The Mini Page that was in this week's newspaper. Here's a link to a .pdf version. We all have fun with it!
http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/minipage.pdf
Leigh - your going to be on The Pioneer Woman's blog? That's HUGE. Does she do CC? Give some details. I guess only a blogger would appreciate the name. :)
Thanks for sharing, Just His Best - looks like a great page!
Jen - It is exciting! She was in CC last year; I'm not sure what tools she's using this year. I'm creating podcasts for her to use on her homeschooling page. I'll pass on more details as I find out.
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