Have Fun with the Presidents: Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts

ISBN-13: 9780471679059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 128 str.

David C. King

Opis

It's important to learn about the U.S. presidents, but it's even better to have fun while doing it. Have Fun with the Presidents is filled with activities, recipes, games, puzzles, profiles, quotes, and fascinating facts, about all 42 American presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. You will learn all kinds of interesting things about the presidents, their families, and the times in which they lived, but this is much more than just a book of facts. The games and activities in Have Fun with the Presidents will give you a better understanding of each president's important contributions, interesting hobbies, and unique personality. In Have Fun with the Presidents you will learn that

• Herbert Hoover and his wife spoke Chinese in the White House as a way of maintaining their privacy
• Dwight Eisenhower was an enthusiastic cook who loved grilling on the roof of the White House
• Two of Theodore Roosevelt's sons managed to sneak a pony into a White House elevator so they could take it to their sick brother's bedroom
• George H.W. Bush hated broccoli so much he had it banned from the White House kitchen
• And much more

Spis treści

Introduction.

George Washington (First President, 1789 1797).

John Adams (Second President, 1797 1801).

Thomas Jefferson (Third President, 1801 1809).

James Madison (Fourth President, 1809 1817).

James Monroe (Fifth President, 1817 1825).

John Quincy Adams (Sixth President, 1825 1829).

Andrew Jackson (Seventh President, 1829 1837).

Martin Van Buren (Eighth President, 1837 1841).

William Henry Harrison (Ninth President, March April 1841).

John Tyler (Tenth President, 1841 1845).

James Knox Polk (Eleventh President, 1845 1849).

Zachary Taylor (Twelfth President, 1849 1850).

Millard Fillmore (Thirteenth President, 1850 1853).

Franklin Pierce (Fourteenth President, 1853 1857).

James Buchanan (Fifteenth President, 1857 1861).

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President, 1861 1865).

Andrew Johnson (Seventeenth President, 1865 1869).

Ulysses S. Grant (Eighteenth President, 1869 1877).

Rutherford B. Hayes (Nineteenth President, 1877 1881).

James A. Garfield (Twentieth President, 1881).

Chester A. Arthur (Twenty–first President, 1881 1885).

Grover Cleveland (Twenty–second President, 1885 1889; Twenty–fourth President, 1893 1897).

Benjamin Harrison (Twenty–third President, 1889 1893).

William McKinley (Twenty–fifth President, 1897 1901).

Theodore Roosevelt (Twenty–sixth President, 1901 1909).

William Howard Taft (Twenty–seventh President, 1909 1913).

Woodrow Wilson (Twenty–eighth President, 1913 1921).

Warren Gamaliel Harding (Twenty–ninth President, 1921 1923).

Calvin Coolidge (Thirtieth President, 1923 1929).

Herbert Hoover (Thirty–first President, 1929 1933).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Thirty–second President, 1933 1945).

Harry S Truman (Thirty–third President, 1945 1953).

Dwight David Eisenhower (Thirty–fourth President, 1953 1961).

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Thirty–fifth President, 1961 1963).

Lyndon Baines Johnson (Thirty–sixth President, 1963 1969).

Richard Milhous Nixon (Thirty–seventh President, 1969 1974).

Gerald Rudolph Ford (Thirty–eighth President, 1974 1977).

Jimmy (James Earl) Carter, Jr. (Thirty–ninth President, 1977 1981).

Ronald Wilson Reagan (Fortieth President, 1981 1989).

George Herbert Walker Bush (Forty–first President, 1989 1993).

Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (Forty–second President, 1993 2001).

George Walker Bush (Forty–third President, 2001 ).

Answers.

Index.

O autorze

David C. King is a former history teacher and an award–winning author who haswritten more than thirty books for children and young adults, including the books in Wiley′s American Kids in History and American Heritage, American Voices series.

Blurb

Fascinating Facts and Fun Projects

It′s important to learn about the U.S. presidents, but it′s evenbetter to have fun while doing it. Have Fun with the Presidents is filled with activities, recipes, games, puzzles, profiles, quotes, andfascinating facts about all of the American presidents, fromGeorge Washington to George W. Bush.

You will learn all kinds of interesting things about the presidents,their families, and the times in which they lived, but this ismuch more than just a book of facts. The games and activities in Have Fun with the Presidents will give you a better understandingof each president′s important contributions, interesting hobbies,and unique personality.

While you are learning about the eventful lives of theAmerican presidents, you will also discover how to:

• Make your own fossil imprints, similar to the ones thatThomas Jefferson collected.
• Make a beautiful summer wreath like the ones thatdecorated Martin Van Buren′s home.
• Play a game of battlefield strategy based on techniquesused by Ulysses S. Grant.
• And much more!