{"id":2015,"date":"2009-11-15T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2015"},"modified":"2009-11-15T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T02:11:11","slug":"teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-where-washington-walked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/15\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-where-washington-walked\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Civics with Children&#8217;s Literature: Where Washington Walked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/washington.jpg\" title=\"washington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/washington.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"washington.jpg\" height=\"136\" width=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Where-Washington-Walked\/Raymond-Bial\/e\/9780802788993\/?itm=1&amp;USRI=where+washington+walked\"><em>Where Washington Walked <\/em><\/a>\u00a0chronicles the life of George Washington. It&#8217;s written by Raymond Bial and has wonderful photographs of the actual places Washington lived, worked and travelled to. It talks about ordinary things Washington did such as &#8220;experimenting with crop rotation to improve soil fertility&#8221; as well as extraordinary things such as &#8220;after the new Constitution was sent to the states for ratification, George Washington was unanimously chosen by the Electoral College in 1789 as the first president of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections:<\/strong>\u00a0This book could be used for \u00a0VA SOL 3.11(b)- identifying the contributions of George Washington. It&#8217;s a longer book with a lot of writing so if it\u00a0is used as an introduction the teacher might have to choose certain pages to highlight. The pictures are interesting so students may also\u00a0enjoy\u00a0reading it on their own.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apples4theteacher.com\/holidays\/presidents-day\/george-washington\/\">website<\/a> has free activities and games for students about George Washington<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">This website is all about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountvernon.org\/\">Mount Vernon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">This website has a multimedia room with recorded readings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/georgewashington\/\">George Washington&#8217;s letters <\/a>along with lesson plans<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>General Information:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Book: Where Washington Walked<br \/>\nAuthor: Raymond Bial<br \/>\nIllustrator: Snap-Haus Graphics<br \/>\nPublisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside<br \/>\nPublication Date: 2004<br \/>\nPages: 48<br \/>\nGrade Range: 3-5<br \/>\nISBN:9780802788993<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Washington Walked \u00a0chronicles the life of George Washington. It&#8217;s written by Raymond Bial and has wonderful photographs of the actual places Washington lived, worked and travelled to. It talks about ordinary things Washington did such as &#8220;experimenting with crop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/15\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-where-washington-walked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,50,848,229,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-book-review","category-civics","category-history","category-social-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}