In this United States' Presidents worksheet, students color the picture of president Millard Fillmore. Students learn his life span dates and that he was the 13th president.

Detailing the political and social events leading up to the Civil War, this presentation provides students with maps, political cartoons, and photographs to put this time period into historical context. The Presidential Elections of...

Students explore melodram as a form of theatre. They write about lucid and factual news accounts and about sensationalism. Students gain experience in relating one time period with another and with doing historical research.

Learners describe conditions that led to massive immigration from Ireland in the 1840s, and compare response of native-born Americans to Irish immigration with responses to Mexican immigration today.

Students examine the emergence of third parties in American politics during the first half of the 19th century. Working in groups, they research a Third Party and determine why the party was founded as well as who were instrumental in...

Students research how and why a country elects to have an executive branch of the government. They study the office of the Presidency of the US.

In this government worksheet, students find the names of the presidents in the word search puzzle. The answers are found by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.

In this President's Day instructional activity, students review presidential history as they read a sentence about each president and unscramble words in each of the sentences.

Students research the life of a president by reading personal letters on the American Presidents web site, and explore the ways that the character and personality of the president affected the ways they handled historical events.

Seventh graders investigate a timeline of the career paths that US presidents took before they became the president. They how these career choices prepared these men for the presidency.

Fifth graders choose a poetry activity in order to focus their research about American presidents.

Students make presidential notebooks which they add to throughout the year. They arrange information about each president into an informational chapter.

Students identify the key issue in the election of 1856, they also identify some of the key people invovled in the election. Students discuss the role of propaganda in politics. Also, students discuss the significance of the election of...