Cookies and the 14th Amendment

Sizzling Summer Learning

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Today is National Sugar Cookie Day.

ON THIS DATE.

  • 1762 -  Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following a coup against her husband, Peter III
  • 1868 - The 14th Amendment is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship.
  • 1877- The first Wimbledon Championships begins.
  • 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech denouncing the gold standard.
  • 2002 - The MLB All-Star game ends in a 7-7- tie after 11 innings when both teams ran out of pitchers.

BIRTHDAYS

  • 1937 - Artist David Hockney
  • 1955 - Politician Lindsey Graham
  • 1956 - Actor Tom Hanks

THEME: Cookies and the 14th Amendment

THEME: COOKIES

  • Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - C Is For Cookie -  VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - The Mysterious Cookie Theif - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The First Time Me Eat Cookie - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Zero Cookies with Cookie Monster - VIEW 
  • Grades PreK-1 -  PBS KIDS - Sesame Street Cookie Games - DO
  • Grades K-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Cooking Cookies with Solar Power - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - What's In That Box of Cookies, Anyway? - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Reactions - How to Cookie with Science - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: 14th AMENDMENT

  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868) and Resource Materials - READ and DO
  • Grades 6-12 -Teaching Tolerance - 14th Anemdment Lesson - READ and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Fourteenth Amendment - Part I
    VIEW and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Fourteenth Amendment - Part II
    VIEW and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - Cornell University -  Legal Information Institute -14th Amendment - READ
  • Grades 7-12 - U.S. Constitution Center - 14th Amendment - READ
  • Grades 9-12 - NEA - 14th Amendment Teaching Guide - READ and DO

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