Famous Americans and Their Contributions
Additional Activities

• Provide students with additional background information about famous Americans by reading teacher-selected books about each.
  
  
• Have each student construct, write, and illustrate a Famous American booklet.
  
  
• Have students research a famous American other than the ones studied in these sessions. Ask them to prepare a poster that contains a picture of the person, a timeline for the person’s life, and a list of the person’s most important contributions to American life. Have a Famous American Day as a culmination of the organizing topic. Display all the posters around the room. Have each student explain his/her poster to the class.
  
  
• Have students construct a timeline of the life of each famous American studied in this organizing topic. Put the timelines together chronologically to help students see the overlap of the various lives and also to help them see the expanse of time from the earliest birth to the most recent death. Discuss the timeline together.