We are always at
Carl Sandburg so we thought we would invite the students to visit some
very special people at
Eastern Illinois University.
The theme was Lincoln and his
jobs. The students learned in an earlier lesson that Abraham Lincoln
had many jobs before he became President. Among them were being a
store clerk, and he even was an inventor!
Lincoln patented a device that lifted boats, but it was never
manufactured. Mr. Leydon showed us many cool inventions!
Next we saw Mr. Ben Smith who works
at the Charleston Wal-Mart. He has done
many jobs there so he was very knowledgeable when answering all of our
questions!
After we saw both presentations we
headed back to the computer lab to
work on our concept maps. First as a group we made a big concept map
with different interesting facts about Lincoln. After we got the wheels
in our heads turning, the students were let loose to work on their own
maps!
