1)Helpful hints to get you started on your Presidents study.
2)A presidents’ worksheet for students to copy and fill out for each president, as they study them.For younger students you can help them with some of the answers, or have them do less.(We sell a separate bound book of these, with one sheet already started for each president, but this form works just as well!)With these worksheets, the students are encouraged to some basic research on each president.It is not an overwhelming amount, but enough to get them going that direction!
3)Several word searches and crossword puzzles of the presidents and their wives.Just a fun addition to the study.
4)A timeline that shows you when each president was elected, which ones died in office, etc.Good for getting you started, and introducing you to some of the presidents you may not have met yet.(When we did our first Presidents study, there truly were a couple of presidents I had never heard of before!)I give each student a copy of the timeline either at the end of the study or at the beginning.I find that a timeline is most helpful for me at the beginning, as we are preparing to start a study, and for them at the end, when they are finishing the study, and can use it as review.
5)A timeline game – good for introducing the topic, and for reviewing later.(Everyone will be amazed at how much easier it is to play at the end of the study than it was at the beginning.)
6)Pictures from Dover Coloring Books of several of the presidents and their wives, so you can see if those are beneficial to your family’s study of the presidents.The coloring books themselves are very inexpensive, and are highly recommended as one of your first Presidents purchases!
Everything in the unit study is reproducible for use with a family or a class.(Dover Coloring Books are also reproducible for use with your family or class….I can only include a few pictures to show you what they are like, but you may buy one of each coloring book, and freely copy them to use with your students.And in the coloring books, you not only get great pictures, you also get small bite-sized pieces of information with each picture.Not bad for a $4.00 investment.)
