John Adams Lesson Plans

1. Lesson Plans for Teachers: A Typical Day in Washington, D.C
...Link to Center on Congress _ Congress Home Title _ _ _ _ Learn About _ Lesson Plans Congress _ About Printable Page the _ Center A Typical Day in Washington, D.C. Overview This lesson examines what a Member of Congress does during a typical day at work in Washington. Students read a letter in which John Adams describes his work in the Continental Congress. Students then write their own letter describing life in Congress. Grade Levels 5 ? 8 Objectives Students will: explain what a Member of Congress does during a typical day; identify the requirements for being a U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative; and n...

2. The Education of Abigail Adams
The Education of Abigail Adams The Education of Abigail Adams Abigail Adams: First Ladies' Lives Skill: Elementary School Time Required: Two to three class periods + + -+ Linkable Resources -+ Student Biography: Abigail Adams -+ + + + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 2 Time, Continuity, and Change -+ NCSS Strand 3 People, Plac...

3. Captain James Cook: Extraordinary Explorer
Captain James Cook: Extraordinary Explorer Captain James Cook: Extraordinary Explorer Abigail Adams: Economics, Discovery and Daily Life Skill: Elementary School Time Required: One or two class periods + + -+ Linkable Resources -+ Timeline: Keyword James Cook -+ + + + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 3 People, Places, and Environments -+ NCSS Strand 9 Global Connections -+ NCTE Standard 3 Stude...

4. "We Hold These Truths...": Writing the Declaration of Independence
"We Hold These Truths...": Writing the Declaration of Independence "We Hold These Truths...": Writing the Declaration of Independence Abigail Adams: Education, Arts, Letters and Ideas Skill: Middle School Time Required: Three class periods + + -+ Linkable Resources -+ Slavery -+ + + + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 6 Power, Authority, and Governance -+ NCTE Standard 3 Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, eval...

5. Hello, I Am Deborah Sampson
...me up with their own product.) 4. Students will dress as their historical figure and be videotaped as they present their product. Revolutionary War Historical Product Figure Betsy Ross Letter to a future grandchild Deborah Sampson Newspaper article King George III Poem George Song Washington Samuel Adams Time line John Paul Jones Filmstrip Martha Puppet(s) Washington Abigail Adams Board game John Adams TV broadcast Crispus Attucks Comic book Phyllis Wheatly Collage Paul Revere Crossword puzzle James Otis Diary Patrick Henry Journal Benedict Arnold Regular report Thomas Jefferson Jeopardy game Benjamin TV...

6. Black & White Drama Lesson Plan
Crayola Submit Register for FREE! Join the Crayola community today. Black & White Drama Why Explore and respond to the work of Ansel Adams, creating original black and white pencil landscape drawings of the Sierra Nevada. Steps 1. Ansel Adams is known for his photographs of the Sierra Nevada, where the Sierra Club was founded by John Muir. Adams's work, exquisite in both its grandeur and detail, is powerful and awe-inspiring. His photos dem...

7. Blunders on All Sides: The Battle of Bunker Hill
Blunders on All Sides: The Battle of Bunker Hill Blunders on All Sides: The Battle of Bunker Hill Abigail Adams: First Ladies' Lives Skill: Middle School Time Required: Two to three class periods + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 3 People, Places, and Environments -+ NCSS Strand 6 Power, Authority, and Governance -+ NCTE Standard 3 Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evalua...

8. Review for test on derivatives
Lesson 38 Review for test on derivatives Quote of the Day: "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." John Adams Objectives: The student will review some of the concepts of derivatives. 1. Collect homework. 2. I Have Who Has Cards (on derivatives) 3. Review Game Tic Tac Toe (with categories) 4. Outline of the test NO calculators I. Multiple Choice 1. Average Rate of Change/ Instantaneous Rate of Change 2. Deri...

9. Like Father, Like Son: Presidential Families
...Printable Lesson Plan _ _ Like Father, Like Son: Presidential Families _ _ Introduction "No man who ever held the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." These do not sound like the words of the father of one of our nation's Presidents. In fact, these words were spoken by John Adams our nation's second President and the father of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. How unusual is it for a father and son to become President of the United States? It has now happened twice in our nation's history: first with the Adamses and, more recently, with the Bushes....

10. Welcome to The American Promise website
...tion look to Thomas Jefferson in 1773? In the scene in the Raleigh Tavern, we watch five leaders take a step closer to independence ... and treason. Or, you might ask your students to play the roles of a variety of American colonials reacting to the Gaspée incident. Include Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams (agitator, organizer of the Sons of Liberty who "sniffed tyranny on every breeze"), Thomas Paine, John Adams (the future president and Boston lawyer who defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre case), a pacifist Quaker businessman, and a Loyalist landowner. With the evidence of the Boston "Ma...