By: Lauren Keller

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Exploring the White House

• By Lauren Keller
• 5th Grade
• Bellamy Elementary School

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New York State Standards/ Themes and Objectives

• NYS learning standard 5- Students will use a
  variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate
  their understanding of the necessity for
  establishing governments the government system
  of the U.S. and other nations the Constitution
  the basic civic values of American constitutional
  democracy and the roles, rights, and
  responsibilities of citizenship, including
  avenues of participation.
• Key Idea 1- The study of civics, citizenship,
  and government involves learning about political
  systems the purposes of government and civic
  life and the differing assumptions held by
  people across time and place regarding power,
  authority, governance, and law.
• NCSS Themes
• Theme X- Civic Ideals and Practices
• Social studies programs should include
  experiences that provide for the study of the
  ideals, principles, and practices of citizenship
  in a democratic republic.
• Objectives
• 1. Have students locate where the White House is
  and who resides there.
• 2. Students will be able to visually see what
  the White House looks like inside and out.
• 3. Students will be able to identify at least 2
  rooms in the White House

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Background Information

• The White House is home to many prestigious
  events and gatherings. Follow this link to an ABC
  connected background to the White House.
• The ABC's to White House history

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Can you find where the White House is located
and which one of these individuals lives there?
George Bush
Derek Jeter
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Answers
George Bush
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Tour the White House
Click here to visit the White House
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Become a tourist

• Assume that your class has planned a trip to the
  White House in Washington D.C and you have to
  write about three important rooms that you visit.
  
• One important room that you will visit is the
  cabinet room. In the cabinet room, the
  secretaries and advisors on the cabinet meet to
  serve the President. It is located in the West
  wing of the White House adjoining the Oval
  Office.

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Lets visit the Roosevelt Room!

• The Roosevelt Room is the official meeting room
  and workplace of the President. It is located in
  the center of the West Wing near the Oval Office.
  This room is named after the influential
  presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin
  Delano Roosevelt as they were large contributors
  to the design and construction of the West Wing.
• See the Roosevelt Wing for yourself!

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Lets Eat!

• The State dining room is the larger of the two
  dining rooms located on the State floor in the
  White House. It is utilized for receptions,
  luncheons and large formal dinners for the Heads
  of the State. It seats 140 guests and has six
  doors leading to different parts of the White
  House.
• Let's eat at the White House!

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Follow- up activity

• Remembering the information that you learned
  throughout this virtual field trip, assume that
  you are writing an ad telling interested tourists
  about the White House. Tell tourists about some
  of the rooms that make up the White House and
  what the rooms are used for. Make the ad
  visitor-friendly to try and attract as many
  tourists as possible. Try to include as much
  information as possible from what you have
  learned.

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Questions?
Does anyone have any questions?
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Resources

• http//www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/roosevelt
  -ipix.html
• Rooms in the White House- Wikipedia.org
• http//www.whitehouse.gov/kids/