First Grade Unit Four:

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• First Grade Unit Four
• Thinking About Inventors Benjamin Franklin
  G.W. Carver

Sarah Blascovich Brown Teacher on Assignment
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Unit Four Highlights
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Unit Four Highlights
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Unit Four Highlights
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Resources (Benjamin Franklin)

• Benjamin Franklin PBS Special website
  http//www.pbs.org/benfranklin/ - be sure to
  click on the different options at the top of the
  site lots of interactive activities you can
  help your students discuss.
• Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary education page
  http//www.benfranklin300.org/education.htm - be
  sure to download the teachers guide and visit
  the artifacts section, as well as the interactive
  timeline and online exhibit.
• Scholastics You Interview Ben Franklin online
  activity http//teacher.scholastic.com/scholastic
  news/games_quizzes/interview/index.asp - students
  ask Franklin questions and watch videos of his
  answers, then compose a newspaper article.

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Resources (George Washington Carver)

• Peanut recipes products http//www.lib.iastate.
  edu/spcl/gwc/resources/furtherresearch.html
• Dr. Carver coloring book activity pages from
  the USDA http//www.da.usda.gov/oo/colorbook.htm
• Library of Congress introduction to Dr. Carvers
  work http//www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.
  cgi/aa/carver
• Field Museum online exhibit information
  http//www.fieldmuseum.org/carver/ - be sure to
  check out the downloadable teachers guide and
  photo gallery!
• Library of Congress Prints Photographs
  collection http//lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
  - search George Washington Carver

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Literacy Resources
Now and Ben The Modern Inventions of Ben
Franklin by Gene Baretta
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson definitely a
read-aloud
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn
Schanzer
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares by Frank Murphy
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Literacy Resources
A Man for All Seasons The Life of George
Washington Carver, by Stephen Krensky
Benjamin Franklin and George Washington Carver
from the Rookie Readers series
The Chance-Taking, Ground-Breaking Life of George
Washington Carver by Cheryl Harness
George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden
A Weed is a Flower by Aliki
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Literacy Resources
The Lorax By Dr. Seuss
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
Getting Through Thursday by Melrose Cooper
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Visit www.kidseconbooks.org for lesson ideas
related to these books!
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Teaching Unit Four

• Individuals, Groups, Institutions
• Contributions of Benjamin Franklin G. W. Carver
• Roles of inventions in peoples lives
• Character traits of historical figures
• Why we remember Franklin Carver today
• Location
• Review ways that geography impacts students
  lifestyle
• Discuss impact of location on goods services
  what is produced in your community why?
• Discuss how where Franklin Carver lived
  impacted their lives and decisions

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Teaching Unit Four

• Scarcity
• Review the concept of scarcity
• How scarcity led to Franklin Carvers
  inventions
• Role of scarcity in our acquisition of goods
  services
• Role of scarcity in production of goods
  services
• Time, Change, and Continuity
• Compare lives of historical figures to students
  lives
• Identify cultural characteristics that are the
  same and different as during the lives of the
  historical figures
• Discuss how Franklin Carvers inventions have
  and have not changed over time