The Power of People

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• Presidential Elections and Other Cool Facts by Syl Sobel, J.D.

Materials

Common Materials

• Age 8-10 Timeline
• markers
• scissors
• encyclopedia or short biographies about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
• glue
• tape
• journal
• colored pencils or markers
• construction paper
• posterboard
• 5 sheets of construction paper of various colors
• prop/costume materials will vary
• library books your child selects

Lesson 1

• map of your community

Lesson 2

• can
• gray construction paper
• quarter
• silver crayon

Lesson 3

• stapler
• 2 or 3 recent copies of the newspaper

Lesson 4

• newspapers
• variety of magazines
• camera
• yellow, green, and orange construction paper

Lesson 5

• washer (kit)
• yardstick
• string (kit)
• ruler
• short biographies about : Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez, Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, the Wright brothers, and Thomas Edison* (5.Introduction - optional)
• hole punch
• map of the U.S.
• paint stirrer stick
• piece of cardboard
• poster board
• pushpin (kit)
• blank white paper
• bulletin board
• carry-on luggage bag

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used