Grade 1 History and Social Studies | Weeks 25-26 | Practice Workbook
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Use the student lessons, matching independent practice, and separate teacher answers in order. Five school days are provided for each week. Student work stays with the family.
Week 25: Helen Keller and Jesse Owens: Alabamians in history
Day 121: Helen Keller in Tuscumbia
Independent printed record: Historical fact card: Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia in 1880; her childhood home is called Ivy Green.
- What Alabama city was Keller born in?
- What is her childhood home called?
- Why is learning to communicate an important part of her story?
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Day 122: The teacher and the water pump
Independent printed record: Museum information card: place = Ivy Green; person = Anne Sullivan; feature = water pump; lesson = communicating words.
- Which teacher is named?
- What outdoor feature is named?
- Why might a historic site preserve the pump?
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Day 123: Jesse Owens from Oakville
Independent printed record: Athlete card: Jesse Owens; birth city Oakville; Olympic year 1936; gold medals four.
- Where was Owens born?
- What year is on the card?
- Why should a history report include both a name and a year?
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Day 124: Different ways to contribute
Independent printed record: Two source captions: Keller, learning and advocacy; Owens, track and field achievements. Both are connected with Alabama.
- Which person is connected with track and field?
- Which person is connected with learning and advocacy?
- How do their contributions differ?
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Day 125: Independent people-and-source check
Independent printed record: New index cards: A = born in Tuscumbia, worked for disability access; B = born in Oakville, won four Olympic gold medals.
- Which card matches Helen Keller?
- Which card matches Jesse Owens?
- What source would help check card B?
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Week 26: Dr. Lonnie Johnson: invention and NASA engineering
Day 126: A young inventor in Mobile
Independent printed record: Biography card: Lonnie Johnson; birthplace Mobile; birth year 1949; work inventor and engineer.
- Where was Johnson born?
- What year was he born?
- What work does the card connect to him?
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Day 127: Engineering at NASA
Independent printed record: NASA career card: Lonnie Johnson; workplace Jet Propulsion Laboratory; spacecraft mission Galileo; destination Jupiter.
- What NASA workplace is named?
- Which mission is named?
- Why is teamwork important in spacecraft projects?
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Day 128: How the Super Soaker began
Independent printed record: Invention card: observation = water sprayed from a nozzle; idea = water toy; inventor = Lonnie Johnson.
- What came out of the nozzle?
- What toy did the idea become?
- Why did noticing the water matter?
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Day 129: Test, improve, then share
Independent printed record: Fictional design notebook: first model leaks; second model holds water; third model is ready for a safe demonstration.
- Which model leaks?
- Which model holds water?
- Why should the inventor test more than once?
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Day 130: Independent inventor source check
Independent printed record: Source cards: A = official inventor profile, Johnson inducted in 2022; B = fictional class sketch of a water sprayer.
- Which card gives the induction year?
- What year is named?
- Why must card B not be called an original Johnson drawing?
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