What it is: Curriclick is a site that I have mentioned before that provides free and low cost curriculum for download and use in your classroom. Today they released a 2009 Presidential Inauguration Lap book for download. After the speech today it would be great to download and use some of the reading and activities in your classroom.
How to integrate 2009 Presidential Inauguration Lap book into the classroom: I don’t know about you but I found that many of my students still didn’t “get” president Obama’s Inauguration speech even after viewing it. Use this free lap book download to help your students understand the history behind the Inauguration speech. Watch the speech again as a class or read the transcript of the speech. Help your students understand this historic occasion with the help of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration Lap book. I wish that they had released this one sooner!
Tips: This is a 40+ page guide. Download the pdf version and only print out the pages you are going to use in your classroom. NOTE! I tried to access this site just a few min. ago and could not get to it, probably because of the flood of traffic. Try back later today if the links in this post don’t seem to be working.
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What it is: Barak Obama’s inauguration speech is taking place tomorrow morning! Make sure that your students (regardless of age) are a part of this historic moment. Wouldn’t it be neat if your students remembered sitting in your classroom watching and discussing the speech? Hulu is going to host the speech live. Because traffic to Hulu is bound to be heavy, I am also going to embed the speech right here on iLearn Technology. Feel free to come here and watch the speech with me!
How to integrate Obama’s Inauguration Speech into the classroom: It isn’t every day that you can watch history in the making live in your classroom! This is a historic moment that every student should be a part of. Come back to iLearn Technology or Hulu to view the speech live. It might be fun to make up a speech bingo card and see how many of the words students can pick out of the speech. I’m sure a ready made bingo card will pop up somewhere! If it does, I will update this post with the link.
Tips: It will be interesting to see what people are saying about the speech via Twitter!
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What it is: With President Obama’s Inauguration speech looming on the horizon, this site is worth a look. Inauguration Speech Generator is like a mad lib, fill in the blank that generates a speech for President Obama to say. 
Students enter words in the blanks according to the part of speech that is requested and then read the speech they have written for our soon to be president.
How to integrate Inauguration Speech Generator into the classroom: This is a great lead in to teach students about the Inauguration of President Obama. It is also a fun way to practice those parts of speech! Students can fill in the blanks individually and share with a partner, or a speech can be generated as a whole class. This would be a fun thing to do right before the inauguration. Save the students version of the speech. They can compare and contrast their speech with the actual inauguration speech after viewing it.
Tips: The inauguration is supposed to be live on CNN, it would be fun to watch live but I suspect that Internet may be slow that day! Those of you with cable in the classroom take advantage!!
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What it is: Fold a US Candidate is a fun site that has paper foldable puppets of the US candidates for the 2008 election. (I am very entertained by this right now!) Both presidential nominees are featured as well as their wives. There is also an election day count down on the site to let your students know how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds they have to wait before the big day. This is a fun site to get your students interested in the upcoming election.
How to integrate Fold a US Candidate into the classroom: Students of all ages are sure to get more involved and interested in the election after visiting this site and making their own president puppet. These would be fun to use as you are discussing the upcoming election in your classroom. While the site is chock full of facts about the candidates, the paper puppets would add to learning about the election and the different candidates. Split your students into groups and assign each a candidate to study. They can find out what the candidates believe about some key issues in the upcoming election. Then they can have a mock debate using the puppets and the research they have gained.
Tips: Print out and fold your US Candidate today! :)
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