CDs only: Warm Up/Review Lessons for U.S. History Using First Day Covers

FDC CD's provide teachers with thirty ready-made lessons, Volume 1 pre 1877, Volume 2 post 1877. Each lesson allows students to analyze the images found on a first day cover, the stamp, postmark and artwork depicting the topic. The images will start a dialogue and peak student’s curiosity on the subject being studied. Lessons provide procedures, discussion questions, teacher notes, activities, Web sites, and one to four color reproductions of the first day covers.

$49.99 each +$3.00 Shipping and Handling 

Volume I Lessonsinclude:

• Jamestown, 
• Magna Carta & House of Burgesses,
• Mayflower Compact,
• Ben Franklin,
• Lexington & Concord,
• Thomas Paine,
• Declaration of Independence,
• Battle of Yorktown,
• Articles of Confederation,
• Bill of Rights,
• Eli Whitney,
• Louisiana Purchase,
• Battle of New Orleans,
• Erie Canal,
• James Monroe,
• Game of Baseball,
• Texas Revolution,
• Pony Express,
• Samuel Morse,
• Stephen Kearny Expedition,
• Women’s Rights Convention,
• Gadsden Purchase,
• Harriet Tubman,
• Civil War Battles,
• Clara Barton,
• Gettysburg Address,
• Homestead Act,
• Purchase of Alaska,
• Thirteenth Amendment,
• Transcontinental Railroad.

Volume 2 Lessons include:

• Yellowstone & Conservation,
• Henry O. Flipper,
• Alexander G. Bell,
• Thomas Edison,
• Statue of Liberty,
• Booker T. Washington,
• W.E.B. DuBois,
• Samuel Gompers & the A. F. of L,
• Spanish-American War,
• Wright Brothers,
• Roosevelt & Panama Canal,
• Pure Food & Drug Act,
• Woodrow Wilson,
• WWI  Propaganda,
• Suffrage & the 19th Amendment,
• Charles Lindbergh,
• Herbert Hoover,
• F.D. Roosevelt & the New Deal,
• Eleanor Roosevelt,
• WIN the WAR,
• Women in WWII,
• United Nations,
• Jackie Robinson & Integration of the Military,
• Harry Truman & NATO,
• Korean War,
• John F. Kennedy,
• Decades of Space,
• LBJ & Civil Rights Act - 1964,
• Vietnam War,
• Power of the Vote.

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