Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow is Ben Franklin’s birthday (1706-1790). To celebrate, here are a couple of links to help share Franklin’s life and many accomplishments with your class:
- PBS.org Teacher’s Guide and Timeline
- The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary website has an interactive timeline with trivia, lesson plans, and other resources
- More Philadelphia-focused, a photo montage of “all things Franklin in the Philadelphia region.”
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
As a former Social Studies teacher, I loved sites that showed you ‘this day in history’ events from any particular day. http://www.brainyhistory.com is a very thorough site. For example, tomorrow (January 23rd) marks the 19th anniversary of Seinfeld debuting on NBC, and the 25th anniversary of Hulk Hogan pinning the Iron Shiek to win the (then) WWF title. There are more educational uses, but I enjoyed putting one thing each day on the board that happened that particular day in history (made for a nice ending of class)