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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Presidential time frame.

Wanted to throw an idea out, see if anyone had suggestions or comments.

I decided to do this year's timeline... one day per president. Not that we are covering the president... but "Washington" day is his era, "Adams" day is his era etc. I have liked it so far. It attaches a president to a time period, we get a bit more indepth on each person and we have a good chronology.

Some modifications are... ofcourse we have to start out colonial.
I am spending part of the end of the year as review only (about a month... We are on a block).
Some get more days (Lincoln= 3, Jackson= 2)

Some presidents get combined (Fillmore and Taylor share etc)

This has been cool for the kids. I feel like they understand the ideas better... and are able to keep the chronology straight.

Tell me what you think

Kel

2 Comments:

Blogger Stephen said...

Sounds good to me. I organize my classes around presidential administrations.

9:22 AM

 
Blogger Kelly Cook said...

I am so glad to hear that... I actually thought most people would disagree with this method... for me it helps to attach a personality with an era...

10:37 AM

 

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