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A perfect lesson about the US Presidents that i would like my class to work on using the Curriculum Web, would be to have a animated picture of each US President, and then to have a cartoon about a historic moment during their Presidency. This would be interesting and perhaps gauge the children's attention more than writing these events on the blackboard. This would not be that easy since there are many events, the students will have to think and use their other skills to get the assignment done.

I think the students would love this idea because it would really allow them to be creative. Would the students being working in groups or by themselves? If they work in groups then maybe than can also do a group of presidents such as the first 5 or something like that. Also, instead of one cartoon than can have a couple regarding a couple of mainpoints in each's presidential time period so that it could be more like a timeline. - Laura

This is a pretty good idea for a curriculum web. However, I think it needs to be expanded upon when actually laying it out on the website. Personally, it seems like something that would take a student a few minutes to do. It's a great idea but it just needs some more activities to keeps the students interested. - Paul

(I posted this question in the discussion area, so you can look at either). I think your curriculum web is interesting. Do you think what you want is almost like a political cartoon? Not only can the students depict what they think the president and time period looks like, they can be critical of his presidency via the cartoon. -Kathryn