Time: 2-1 hour class periods

Activities:

**Day 1

~Students work in pairs.

~Each pair is given the name of a President and told that for the next few days they will be doing a research project.

~Students are given the criteria to write a biography of the president they are researching. You may include things such as Birthdate, Date of Death, important contributions, What they did to change America, etc.

~Students use the first day to research and write their biography about the president they are researching.

**Day 2

~Each pair uses bulletin board paper to trace one member of the pair.

~The students then decorate the outline like the president they researched.

~The students then cut out the outline and the teacher hangs them in the hallway to create “A Walk Through History”

~The students put the biography of the person with the cut out in the hallway.

~If time allows each pair presents their President to the rest of the class.

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