James Buchanan Lesson Plans

1. American Presidents: Life Portraits
...merican Presidents web site and research the president in order to develop an appropriate nickname. All these names should have the sir name man' such as George Washington is "The Man," as the father of our country and Thomas Jefferson is "The Ideal Man," because of the Declaration of Independence. James Buchanan is "The Lonely Man," based on his bachelor status, etc. The students can use the nicknames as the title of their chapters. 5. Test student's knowledge and Internet research skills by taking C-SPAN's daily American President quiz. Instruct students to create their own quiz questions based on the pres...

2. The Identification of Bacteria
...l of the publications listed below for their use. Anonymous. 1984. Difco Manual: Dehydrated Culture Media and reagents for Microbiology. Difco Laboratories, Detroit. Baron, Ellen Jo, and Sydney M. Finegold. 1990.Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology. The C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis. Bartholomew, James. 1977. Laboratory Textbook and Experiments in Microbiology. Kendall /Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque. Benson, Harold J. 1990. Microbiological Applications: A Laboratory Manual in General Microbiology. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque. Blazevic, Donna J., and Grace Mary Ederer. 1975. Principles of Biochemical Te...

3. Who Were They Really, These Presidents?
...omputers 4. Finished product URLs: All Presidents Welcome to The Amercian Presidency http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/prescont.html The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov POTUS - Presidents of the United States http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS American Presidents http://www.americanpresidents.org James Buchanan The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jb15.html Presidents of the United States http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/jbuchanan.html Think Quest http://www.thinkquest.org/library/ Virtualology http://www.virtualology.com/uspresidents/jamesbuchanan.net/ Millard Fillmore Welcome to The A...

4. Fugitive from Labor Cases
...nts and individuals included the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Compromise of 1850, bounty hunters, the Christiana riots, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, "Bleeding Kansas," the Dred Scott decision, the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner, President James Buchanan, the Lincoln - Douglas debates, and John Brown's raid. Divide students into 12 small groups and assign one topic to each group. Direct student groups to conduct research on their topic using library and Internet resources. Ask each group to report the key information about their topic as a news flas...

5. State Dinners and Funerals: Protocol and Diplomacy
...rsation and Miss Manners. Have a discussion regarding the differences between manners at the birth of our nation and now. Sources & Resources: Books: Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents? Wives and their Power, 1789-1961. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. Buchanan, Wiley. Red Carpet at the White House: Four Years as Chief of Protocol in the Eisenhower Administration. New York: Dutton, 1984. Caldwell, Mark. A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America. New York: St. Martin?s Press, 1999. Carol, Betty Boyd. Inside...

6. The 'Nobel'est People
...Hans Adolf Krebs 1951- Max Theiler 1948- Paul Hermann Muller 1933- Thomas Hunt Morgan 1930- Karl Landsteiner 1924- Willem Einthoven 1919- Jules Bordet 1912- Alexis Carrel Physics-- 1983- William A. Fowler 1969- Murray Gell-Mann 1967- Hans Albrecht Bethe 1943- Otto Stern 1938- Enrico Fermi 1935- Sir James Chadwick 1923- Robert Andrews Millikan 1922- Niels Bohr 1921- Albert Einstein 1920- Charles Edouard Guillaume 1919- Johannes Stark 1909- Guglielmo Marconi Chemistry-- 1965- Robert Burns Woodward 1958- Frederick Sanger 1954- Linus Pauling 1911- Marie Curie Economics-- 1986- James M. Buchanan, Jr. 1985- Franco...

7. Civil War Integrated Lesson Plan
...brought to a decision in the same month of May, 1854. The negro's name was Dred Scott, which name now designates the decision finally made in the case. Before the then next Presidential election, the law case came to and was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States... The election came. Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the indorsement, such as it was, secured. That was the second point gained... The Supreme Court met again; did not announce their decision, but ordered a reargument. The Presidential inauguration came, and still no decision of the Court; but the incoming President in his inaugural address...

8. American Civil War
...n the different sections of the country, compromises, such as the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas Nebraska Act led to the most cataclysmic event in U.S. history. After the election of Lincoln in 1860, seven Southern States decided to leave the union led by South Carolina. The Lame Duck President James Buchanan was reluctant to deal with the Southern Secession, and left it for his predecessor. Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, outlined his policy concerning secession the South and Slavery. The students will then study the outbreak of the war with the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for 75,0...

9. The Olympians
...political context; to question contemporary attitudes Emery Bobsled and how they influence the Games of today; and, to investigate the use of symbols to represent the (Footprint) Olympics. Resources Batten, Jack, ed. 1896-1996 Canada at the Olympics: the First Hundred Years. Toronto: Infact, 1996. Buchanan, Ian and Bill Mallon. Historical Dictionary of '76 the Olympic Movement. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Montr?al Press, 1995. Olympics (Explores all aspects of the Games and includes a brief review of all the Olympiads, and a chronology. By two (Footprint) well-known and authoritative Olympic authors.) Findl...

10. The Olympics - in the water
...eigh amateur and professional athletic competition at the Games; and, to question contemporary attitudes and how they influence the Games of today. Resources Print Sources Batten, Jack, ed. 1896-1996 Canada at the Olympics: the McBean & First Hundred Years. Toronto: Infact, 1996. Heddle (Footprint) Buchanan, Ian and Bill Mallon. Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1995. (Explores all aspects of the Games and includes a brief review of all the Olympiads, and a chronology. By two well-known and authoritative Olympic authors.) Findling, John E. and Kimberly D. Pelle...