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Lindsey Socie's Internet Search and Book List   [|Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out] by Various, N.C.B.L.A., and David Mccullough  __We Elect Our President__ This is a teachers resource boook for kindergarten thru first grade that tell all about the white house and the president. The topics it covers are as followed [|Woodrow, the White House Mouse] by Cheryl Shaw Barnes Peter W. Barnes __Our White House: Looking In, looking Out.__ [] This is an educational website based on the book.
 * president as a leader,
 * characteristics of a good leader,
 * location of the White House,
 * White House as the home of presidents and their family pets,
 * jobs of presidents in the past and today, and
 * process of voting.

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__** Brittani Thompson **__ Internet Sites __ The Flag of the United States of America. __ [|www.usflag.org] This website gives the pledge of allegiance, the history of the flag, the history of flag day, and why our flag got the name “Old Glory”. __ Apples for the Teacher. __ [|www.apples4theteacher.com] This site is a great resource for the teacher to find coloring pages to print for the class. Great for primary grade levels. __ American Bald Eagle Information. __ [|www.baldeagleinfo.com] This site provides information for the teacher about the American bald eagle. It provides information about the bald eagle’s history, its eye sight, and anything else someone would want to know about a bad eagle. __ The Statue of Liberty Foundation. __ [|http://www.statueofliberty.org] This site provides all of the information about Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. It’s a great resource for teachers to research before teaching students about the statue of liberty. It gives information on the history, present and even some fun facts. __ Abc Teach. __ [] This page gives an example of a thematic unit plan for an older group. We could use this to brainstorm ideas for our lesson plan. Most of the stuff is too advanced for kindergarten, but it could provide some ideas or trigger some thought.

__ Art and History of Washington D.C. by Bruce R. Smith __ This is an informational book about Washington D.C. One of the symbols that we will be teaching about in our unit is the white house and this would be a great teacher resource. __ The United States Supreme Court by Tamara L. Britton __ This book tells about the different United States landmarks, monuments, and symbols. It shows pictures and explains the objects in a way that primary elementary students can understand. __ Symbols of the United States Government: Ben’s Activity Book by Unites States Government Printing Office __ This book is an activity book that uses the symbols in fun activities for the child. This could be used as a supplement to the lessons on the U.S. symbols. __ The Unites States Flag by Amanda Doering Tourville and Todd Ouren __ This is a child’s book all about the United States Flag. This is written at a child’s reading level so that they can comprehend the text. __ State Songs by George Travis __ This book has song lyrics for all of the countries songs accompanied with pictures.
 * Book List **

**__Chrissy Coyle__** Internet List:

This website discusses the history of our flag, the meaning behind the pledge of allegiance, flag etiquette (dates it should be flown) etc. This website contains facts about the Statue of Liberty, construction of the Statue of Liberty, history, and pictues gallery. This website provides info on the anatomy of the bald eagle, habitat, prey, nesting, life span, eagle print out labeling body parts, and an eagle quiz. This website contains the social studies kindergarten standards along with links to teacher resources to find out more information about each. This website contains the history of the White House, pictures of White House and all of the presidents, fun facts, and first pets of the White House.
 * Old Glory** []
 * A Visit to the Statue of Liberty** []
 * All About the Bald Eagle** []
 * Kindergarten Resources** []
 * White House 101** []

Book List:

Written by: Wendy Cheyette Lewison Illustrated by: Barbara Duke This book talks about the different meanings of the flag and how the flag can mean so many different things to different people.
 * __F is For Flag__**

Written by: Wendy Cheyette Lewison Illustrated by: Laura Freeman Hines This book is about the history of the Statue of Liberty and what she stands for.
 * __L is for Liberty__**

Written by: Betsy Maestro Illustrated by: Giulio Maestro This picture book describes the creation of the huge statue given by France to the United States and all the major events in the statue's creation.
 * __The Story of the Statue of Liberty__**

Written by: John Herman Illustrated by: Robin Roraback This book is about how the American flag came into being, hownit has changed over the years, and why it is an important symbol to our country.
 * __Red White and Blue: The Story of the American Flag__**

Written and Illustrated by: Gail Gibbons This book is about how a bald eagle hunts, courting, nesting, hatching, along with fascinating facts and statistics and the efforts being made to save it's species.
 * __Soaring with the Wind__**

Terri Broda Internet List: 1. [] Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for kids k-2. This site is directed towards kindergarten through second grade, but it has other links for older students, and is great for learning about America’s symbols. It gives eight different symbols to choose from and when you click on the symbol it tells you the history of the symbol and what it looks like. 2. [] Symbols of the United States. This site gives information of different U.S. symbols in great detail. They have more mature pictures and it is not exactly directed towards the younger students but can be of great help for teachers. 3. [] American Idols. This site is very student friendly. They have the name of the symbol and a picture of the symbols right above the name. Each symbol that you click on gives you a brief description of it. 4. [] Symbols of the U.S.A. This page is fun because it has printable coloring pages for the students to color. Also, at the top of the coloring page it has a quote by a famous American and at the bottom it gives a description of what the symbols is. 5. [] American Symbols Game. This is a very fun and informative site. It could be used after you teach the lesson on symbols to have the class interact as a whole.

Book List: 3. White House by Denise Rinaldo This book gives lots of information about the White House and its history. It also has web links that take you inside the house. 4. O, Say Can You See? America's Symbols, Landmarks, And Inspiring Words by Keenan, Ann Boyajian (Illustrator) This book is filled with lots of different United States symbols and each symbol has 2 pages worth of information. 5. The Bald Eagle by Norman Pearl, Matthew Skeens(Illustrator) This book is one in a series called American Symbols Series. It describes about the bald eagle and how it came to be on our money as well as one of our national symbols.