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Informationen zum Autor David C. King is a former history teacher and an award-winning author who haswritten more than thirty books for children and young adults, including the books in Wiley's American Kids in History and American Heritage , American Voices series. Klappentext Fascinating Facts and Fun Projects It's important to learn about the U.S. presidents, but it's evenbetter to have fun while doing it. Have Fun with the Presidents is filled with activities, recipes, games, puzzles, profiles, quotes, andfascinating facts about all of the American presidents, fromGeorge Washington to George W. Bush. You will learn all kinds of interesting things about the presidents, their families, and the times in which they lived, but this ismuch more than just a book of facts. The games and activities in Have Fun with the Presidents will give you a better understandingof each president's important contributions, interesting hobbies, and unique personality. While you are learning about the eventful lives of theAmerican presidents, you will also discover how to: Make your own fossil imprints, similar to the ones thatThomas Jefferson collected. Make a beautiful summer wreath like the ones thatdecorated Martin Van Buren's home. Play a game of battlefield strategy based on techniquesused by Ulysses S. Grant. And much more! Zusammenfassung It's important to learn about the U.S. presidents! but it's even better to have fun while doing it. Have Fun with the Presidents is filled with activities! recipes! games! puzzles! profiles! quotes! and fascinating facts! about all 42 American presidents! from George Washington to George W. Bush. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. George Washington (First President, 1789-1797). John Adams (Second President, 1797-1801). Thomas Jefferson (Third President, 1801-1809). James Madison (Fourth President, 1809-1817). James Monroe (Fifth President, 1817-1825). John Quincy Adams (Sixth President, 1825-1829). Andrew Jackson (Seventh President, 1829-1837). Martin Van Buren (Eighth President, 1837-1841). William Henry Harrison (Ninth President, March-April 1841). John Tyler (Tenth President, 1841-1845). James Knox Polk (Eleventh President, 1845-1849). Zachary Taylor (Twelfth President, 1849-1850). Millard Fillmore (Thirteenth President, 1850-1853). Franklin Pierce (Fourteenth President, 1853-1857). James Buchanan (Fifteenth President, 1857-1861). Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President, 1861-1865). Andrew Johnson (Seventeenth President, 1865-1869). Ulysses S. Grant (Eighteenth President, 1869-1877). Rutherford B. Hayes (Nineteenth President, 1877-1881). James A. Garfield (Twentieth President, 1881). Chester A. Arthur (Twenty-first President, 1881-1885). Grover Cleveland (Twenty-second President, 1885-1889; Twenty-fourth President, 1893-1897). Benjamin Harrison (Twenty-third President, 1889-1893). William McKinley (Twenty-fifth President, 1897-1901). Theodore Roosevelt (Twenty-sixth President, 1901-1909). William Howard Taft (Twenty-seventh President, 1909-1913). Woodrow Wilson (Twenty-eighth President, 1913-1921). Warren Gamaliel Harding (Twenty-ninth President, 1921-1923). Calvin Coolidge (Thirtieth President, 1923-1929). Herbert Hoover (Thirty-first President, 1929-1933). Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Thirty-second President, 1933-1945). Harry S Truman (Thirty-third President, 1945-1953). Dwight David Eisenhower (Thirty-fourth President, 1953-1961). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Thirty-fifth President, 1961-1963). Lyndon Baines Johnson (Thirty-sixth President, 1963-1969). Richard Milhous Nixon (Thirty-seventh President, 1969-1974). Gerald Rudolph Ford (Thirty-eighth P...
