A Social Studies
Lesson
HOPE APPELBAUM
NICOLE MUEHLENKAMP
DEBBIE SMITH
ED 417-02
Fall 2001
PRESIDENTS FROM
OHIO
A FOURTH GRADE
LESSON PLAN
OBJECTIVES
UPON COMPLETION OF THIS LESSON STUDENTS
WILL
BE ABLE TO:
RECOGNIZE AND NAME THE EIGHT PRESIDENTS
FROM
OHIO.
USE MAP TO LOCATE AND IDENTIFY BIRTHPLACE
OF
THE OHIO PRESIDENTS.
NAME 1 ACCOMPLISHMENT OR FACT ABOUT EACH
PRESIDENT.
INTERPRET HOW POLITICAL ACTIVITY
ILLUSTRATES
MATERIALS
NEEDED

MAP OF OHIO
 ATLAS
 POSTERS OF OHIO PRESIDENTS
 OHIO PRESIDENT FACT SHEET
 COMPUTER WITH INTERNET
 RECIPE FROM INTERNET PLUS LIST OF
INGREDIENTS
 CALCULATORS
 CREATIVE MINDS
 GOOD ATTITUDE
Websites
www.webpresidentsusa.com/
 http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/PPF/ohioa
ns/presidents/puzzler.html
 www.ohiobio.org
 www.whitehouse.org/kids/index.asp
 www.americanpresidents.org/
 www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
 www.foodbooks.com/recipes.htm#top
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INTERNET
ACITIVITIES
Play the Ohio President game
online. Click the title Ohio’s
Presidents below to begin
playing.
Ohio's Presidents
WRITING ACTIVITY
IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE CAMPAIGNING
FOR PRESIDENT. WRITE A CAMPAIGN
SPEECH THAT WOULD CONVINCE OTHERS
TO VOTE FOR YOU.
INCLUDE TWO IMPORTANT REASONS
WHY YOU WOULD MAKE A GREAT
PRESIDENT.
BE PREPARED TO SHARE YOUR
CAMPAIGN SPEECH WITH YOUR
MAP ACTIVITY
WITH MAP OF OHIO AND OHIO PRESIDENT FACT
SHEET, LOCATE THE BIRTHPLACE OF EACH OF
THE OHIO BORN PRESIDENTS.
CALCULATE THE DISTANCE IN MILES FROM
DAYTON TO EACH OF THE OHIO BORN
PRESIDENT’S BIRTHPLACES.
IF YOU VISITED EACH OF THESE BIRTHPLACES,
WHAT IS THE TOTAL DISTANCE YOU WOULD
TRAVEL?
COOKING ACTIVITY
To discover what types of food were eaten
during one of the terms of Ohio’s presidents
we will prepare a typical meal of the time
period.
 Choose a president. Using the internet,
research what foods were eaten during his
term of office.
 Choose one dish and print the recipe so that
the class can cook and sample favorite foods
of the past.
 Recipes for Historic Cooking
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TIMELINE ACTIVITY
 USING YOUR OHIO PRESIDENT FACT
SHEET, CREATE A TIMELINE WITH
MARKERS AND POSTERBOARD. MAKE IT
COLORFUL AND CREATIVE.
 STARTING WITH THE EARLIEST, SHOW
WHAT YEAR EACH OHIO PRESIDENT WAS
BORN, WHAT YEAR HIS PRESIDENCY
BEGAN, WHAT YEAR HIS PRESIDENCY
ENDED, AND WHAT YEAR HE DIED.
William Henry Harrison
9th President
 Birthplace: Berkeley
Plantation, Virginia – Lived
in North Bend, Ohio when
elected president.
 Facts about presidency:
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Harrison arrived at his
inauguration by train, the
first President to do so.
 In 1841, the U.S. Supreme
Court handed down the
decision to free the Africans
taken from the slave ship
Amistad.
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William Henry Harrison
ULYSSES S. GRANT
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18th President (1869-1877)
Republican Party
Birthplace: Point Pleasant, Ohio
Facts about presidency:
The first transmission of human voice
on telephone was successfully carried out
by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
Also that year, U.S. Forces led by
General A. Custer were destroyed at
Little Big Horn by Native American forces
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
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19th President (1877-1881)
Republican Party
Birthplace: Delaware, Ohio
Facts about presidency:
The first telephone was
installed in the White House
in 1879.
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Saw the end of the
Reconstruction Era in the
South.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
JAMES A. GARFIELD
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20th President (1881 - died
in office)
Republican Party
Birthplace: Orange, Ohio
Facts about presidency:
In 1881, the American
Red Cross was founded by
Clara Barton.
Garfield was
assassinated on July 2, 1881
– only six months after he
took office.
James Abram Garfield
BENJAMIN HARRISON
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Benjamin Harrison
23rd President (1889-1893)
Republican Party
Birthplace: North Bend, Ohio
Facts about presidency:
Oklahoma was opened to
settlement.
The International Copyright
Act passed.
The first Pan-American
conference was held in 1889.
Benjamin Harrison
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
25th President (1897-1901 – died in
office, second term)
 Republican Party
 Birthplace: Niles, Ohio
 Facts about presidency:
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The United States declared war
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on Spain.
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Under William McKinley the
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United States gained its first
overseas possessions - Puerto Rico
and Guam.
 Biography of William McKinley
WILLIAM H. TAFT
27th President (1909-1913)
 Republican Party
 Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
 Facts about presidency:
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Admiral Robert Peary and
Matthew Hensen reached the
North Pole in 1909.
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On July 2, 1909, the
Sixteenth Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was enacted
giving Congress the power to
lay and collect income taxes.
 William Howard Taft
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WARREN G. HARDING
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Warren Harding was our 29th
president. He was eleced in
1921 and died in office in 1923.
Birthplace: Corsica, Ohio which
is now called Blooming Grove.
He was the first president to ride
in a car to his inauguation.
He was the first American
President to takeoffice after
World War I.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
GROUP ACTIVITY
AFTER THE PREPARATION OF OUR GROUP’S HISTORIC FOOD, WE
BEGIN OUR CAMPAIGN FEAST.
WHILE ENJOYING THE PREPARED FOODS, EACH GROUP WILL CHO
ONE MEMBER OF THEIR GROUP TO REPRESENT THEM AS THEIR
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
UPON COMPLETION OF OUR FEAST, THE CANDIDATE CHOSEN TO
REPRESENT THEIR GROUP WILL SHARE THEIR CAMPAIGN SPEECH
THE REST OF THE CLASS.
AFTER THE CAMPAIGN SPEECHES HAVE BEEN READ, THE CLASS
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.
INTERESTING FACTS
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Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding while driving a horse and buggy in Washington,
DC. He had to pay a fine of $20.00 and walk back to the White House.
Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards.
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 Benjamin Harrison had the White House wired for electricity, but because
he was afraid of getting shocked, he would not touch the switches!
 William McKinley's picture is on the 500 dollar bill. Guam, Hawaii, and
Puerto Rico all became part of the United States during his term
 William Howard Taft started the tradition of the president throwing out the first ball
at the beginning of baseball season.
 Warren G. Harding was the first president to give a speech over the radio.
 Ulysses S. Grant helped set up Yellowstone National Park, which was our country's
first national park.
 Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the White House. Alexander
Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, gave Hayes personal instructions on how
to use it.
 James A. Garfield could write with both hands. Sometimes he amused people by writing
Greek with one hand and Latin with the other!
ASSESSMENT
 ASSESSMENT
FOR THIS
POWERPOINT LESSON WILL BE
MADE BY TEACHER OBSERVATION
BASED ON STUDENT
PARTICIPATION IN ACTIVITIES, AS
THIS IS AN INTRODUCTORY
LESSON. FORMAL ASSESSMENT
WILL BE MADE UPON COMPLETION
OF THE UNIT ABOUT OHIO.