Building the Panama Canal (1904-1914) and President Teddy Roosevelt

Student (age 18, special needs) notebook page. Can't you tell how much he dislikes coloring?

 

We read about the building of the Panama Canal and then they added maps to their notebooks. We talked malaria and yellow fever and President Teddy Roosevelt's role in US's involvement in the canal. We reviewed how canals and locks work. We talked about how much the canal saved people in time, money and trouble once it was built.

We talked about President Roosevelt's accomplishments and added him to our file box timeline.

President Theodore Roosevelt

26th President

Served: 1901-1909

Party: Republican

Became President after the death of McKinley

Building of the Panama Canal

Went on an African safari doing research for the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History

Campaigned against Taft for the Republican nomination for President in 1913, but lost

Attempted assassination while campaigning – Bullet went through eye glasses case and his speech, but he went on to deliver the speech, while bleeding, before going to the doctors.

Went on expedition in South America where he contracted malaria.

First President under constant Secret Service protection

First President to invite a colored man, Booker T.Washington, into the White House

First President to ride in an airplane

Quote “Speak softly and carry and big stick.”

Namesake: Teddy Bear, after he refused to kill a bear during a hunt in Mississippi

Nicknamed Teddy – even though he disliked the name

Mount Rushmore

Submarine and aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt

What else was happening in America at the turn of the century?

San Francisco Earthquake

Many American artists went to Europe to paint.

 Thomas Eakins

Maurice Prendergast

John Singer Sargent 

Winslow Homer

Charles Russell

Frederic Remington

George Eastman developed the Kodak Camera

Frank Lloyd Wright

William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Maria Montessori
Rockefeller
Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs
Wright Brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk
Henry Ford provided the first affordable car, Sunday drives
Barbershop Quartets 
Nickelodeon and penny arcades
hand-cranked Victrola
baseball
picnics
Teddy Bears

related posts:

• The Spanish-American War and Clara Barton

books:

• Locks Crocs, and Skeeters; The story of the Panama Canal, Nancy Parker
• Interactive 3-D Maps: American History: Easy-to-Assemble 3-D Maps That Students Make and Manipulate to Learn Key Facts and Concepts-in a Kinesthetic Way!, Donald M. Silver

source: 

• Presidents Lapbook at Homeschool Share