Ohio History

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Ohio History

• By Katie Naugle
• ED 41702

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Unit Ohio History

• Grade Level 1st grade
• Lesson To educate students on the state of Ohio
  and the history of its existence.

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Objectives

• Students will
• -Identify origin of Ohios name
• -Use directional words to locate surrounding
  states
• -Identify Ohio presidents

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Activity 1Where did Ohio get its name?
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Activity 1

• Materials
• -brown construction paper
• -markers/crayons/scissors
• -Indian headdress template
• -colored feathers
• -glue

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Activity 1 (cont.)

• Lesson
• -Students will make Iroquois Indian headdresses
  to help them remember that Ohio was named by the
  Iroquois, meaning great river.
• -Students will use provided materials to make
  their unique headdresses and will write
  Iroquois on the front of their headdress to
  help them distinguish themselves from other
  Indian tribes.

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Activity 2Surrounding states
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Activity 2

• Materials
• -Graphic Organizer
• -Pencil
• -Paper
• -Maps
• -Crayons

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Activity 2 (cont.)

• Surrounding States
• Pennsylvania
• West Virginia
• Kentucky
• Indiana
• Michigan

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Activity 2 (cont.)

• Lesson
• -Use maps to locate Ohio and its surrounding
  states
• -Once surrounding states are located, students
  will use graphic organizer to write at least one
  sentence using a directional word to describe
  that states location.
• -Students will share with their table and color
  the provided map.

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Activity 3Inventions
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Activity 3

• Materials
• -Variety of costumes
• -One of each invention discussed
• -Map

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Activity 3 (Cont.)

• Inventions
• Thomas Edison
• -Light bulb, Phonograph, Motion picture camera
• Wright Brothers
• -airplane
• Charles Kettering
• -automobile self-starter
• W.F. Semple
• -chewing gum
• Ohio
• -first hot dog

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Activity 3 (cont.)

• Lesson
• -Students will dress up as one of the ten
  discussed inventors
• -Will stand in front of the class and share what
  they invented and when
• -Children will take turns until each child has
  had a turn to be an Ohio inventor.

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Activity 4Ohio Firsts

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Activity 4

• Materials
• -Data folders to record progress
• -10 true/false statements

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Activity 4 (cont.)

• Lesson
• -Students will listen to ten statements about
  Ohio firsts and decide if they think it is true
  or false prior to beginning the Ohio lesson.
• -Record score in data folder
• -After completion of the Ohio unit, do the same
  true/false activity. Record and compare results.

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Activity 5Ohio Presidents

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Activity 5

• Materials
• -The Little Giant Book of American Presidents
• -Paper
• -Markers

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Activity 5 (cont.)

• Lesson
• -Read The Little Giant Book of American
  Presidents (only Ohio Presidents)
• -Discuss how many presidents come from Ohio
• -Make an Ohio President Fact Book during centers
  (using book read to class as resource) including
  at least two facts about each president.

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Useful Websites

• http//www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohio_quick_facts
  .php
• Ohio Historical Central
• http//www.northcanton.sparcc.org/elem/kidspirati
  on/testa/statesohio.htm
• Kidspiration States Around Ohio
• http//www.noacsc.org/ohiohist/FunFacts/FunFacts.h
  tm
• Ohios Fun Facts
• http//search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/result
  s.asp?AUDJUVkidsyWRDpresidentszy
• Barnes and Noble
• http//images.google.com/images?svnum10um1hle
  nclientfirefox-arlsorg.mozilla3Aen-US3Aoffic
  ialqohiobtnGSearchImages
• Google Images Ohio