Abraham Lincoln Classroom Activities, Crafts, and Games
Website Name and URL Description Background Lessons Students

http://www.craftsforkids.com/projects/abe_lincoln_bank.htm

 

Hands on Crafts for Kids

This site offers an Abe Lincoln Bank craft activity.

 

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Grades

2-5

 

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html

 

Ms. Payton’s Class Abraham Lincoln for Primary Children

This site offers a web-based activity about Abraham Lincoln for primary age children. The site is offered by Mrs. Payton's first grade class.

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Grades

2-5

 

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/presidents-day/abraham-lincoln/index.html

 

Abraham Lincoln Games and Activities for Kids

This site includes a collection of external links for Abraham Lincoln activities.

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Grades K-12

http://www.americanmemory.org/TR_Activity_Book/index.htm

 

“Abraham & Me Activity Book” from American Memory (Library of Congress)

 

This is a teacher’s project pack complete with activities for students.

 

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Grades K-3

 

http://www.siue.edu/EDUCATION/AAM/lesson/braweber/AAM%20Webpage/abe.htm

 

Abraham Lincoln Lesson Plan

This site offers a lesson plan for elementary grade students. It includes primary source documents.

 

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Grades 2-3

http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr14.html

 

Library of Congress

 

This site describes events related to the Lincoln assassination.

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Grades 6-12

 

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/1891.shtml

 

A to Z Teacher Stuff

 

This site offers directions for students to make their own log cabin from pretzels and milk cartons

 

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Pre K-K

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=246#LESSON1

 

EdSiteMent

 

This site includes a unit using the book, “Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers”.

 

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Grades 3-5

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/presidents-day/abraham-lincoln-portrait.html

 

Apples 4 the Teacher

 

This site offers Lincoln coloring pages.

 

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Grades K-3

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/education/curriculum.htm

 

Abraham Lincoln Online

 

This site offers lessons about Lincoln’s re-election, going to war, analyzing Lincoln’s time period, and more. 

 

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Grades

K-12

http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp14_lincoln.asp

 

American Writers Video Lessons

 

This site contains lessons that use videos that relate to Lincoln and his time period. 

 

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Grades 6-9

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/index.html

 

The Time of the Lincolns

 

A companion to the film Abraham and Mary Lincoln:  A House Divided.  This site contains articles, virtual tours, maps, descriptions, pictures, biographies based on Lincoln’s time.  The topics include partisan politics, slavery and freedom, a rising nation, Americans at war, a woman’s world.

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Grades 6 - 12

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/abrahamlincoln.htm

 

Abraham Lincoln for Kids

This is a kid friendly site that discusses Lincoln’s life.

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Grades 2-5

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Abraham_Lincoln/index.shtml

 

A to Z Teacher Stuff

 

This site includes a timeline, crossword puzzle, and biography.

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Grades K-12

http://www.ecps.k12.nc.us/dfw/ebaker/LincolnWebQuest.htm

 

Loogootee Community Schools

This site offers an interactive quiz on Abraham Lincoln.  Students can click on highlighted parts of the questions to find the answers. 

 

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Grades K-5

 

http://www.archives.gov

 

The National Archives

This site is offered by the National Archives.  It offers great background information about Lincoln.

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Grades 6-12

 

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1520.html

 

Teachers.net

 

This site offers a Lincoln based literacy unit suitable for elementary students.

 

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Grades 2-4