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#1 John F. Kennedy Biography


=[|John F. Kennedy Biography]= ﻿ This is a great website that gives the Biography of our 35th president John F. Kennedy from the JFK Presidential Library & Museum. The Biography includes pictures, outlines, and original documents from birth to death of John F. Kennedy. After reading JFK's biography this is a great lesson for students to follow up with. This lesson is appropriate for grades 4th and up. This lesson allows the students to research John Kennedy as a president and as a young boy; It also gives the students a chance to create their own biography. [|JFK Biography lesson plan.docx].

#2 Jacqueline B. Kennedy
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[|Jacqueline B. Kennedy] This is a great website (JFK Presidential Library & Museum) that gives the biography of John F. Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. This biography explains Mrs. Kennedy as a little girl up to and including thestruggles as being the first lady of the United States. This biography also comes with a lesson; this lesson allows the students to follow Mrs. Kennedy through her days as a camera girl to being the first lady. [|Jackie Kennedy's biography lesson plan.docx].

#3 John F. Kennedy greatly accelerated the space program
 ﻿ Pr[|esident Kennedy's Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs] In this excerpt, President Kennedy discusses the need to make further advances in space. He asks Congress to provide funding for the development of appropriate lunar space craft, nuclear rockets, and communication and weather satellites.

[|JFK Makes Moon Landing Top NASA Priority] Excerpt of a tape recording of a 73-minute White House meeting that took place on November 21, 1962 during which President Kennedy made clear his administration’s priority that the United States land on the moon before the Soviet Union. 

media type="custom" key="7151177" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This is a clip from JFK's historic speech that sent us to the moon and Neil's famous 1st step. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">John F Kennedy's address at Rice University

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">In his speech, President Kennedy outlines the reasons for increased funding for the space program and his commitment to putting a man on the moon.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Correspondence between JFK and LBJ on the space program <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> 1961 correspondence between President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson on the state of the nation’s space program.
 * Date:** April 20, 1961 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Kennedy's Telegram: congratulations] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This is President Kennedy's telegram congratulating the Soviet Union on the first manned space flight, April 12, 1961. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: large;">Space Activity for grades 3-8 __
<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Using these two sources Complete the activity attached. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">On April 12, 1961 cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin from the Soviet Union orbited around the earth in 108 minutes. The same day President Kennedy wrote a telegram to Premier Nikita Khrushchev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned flight. [|Kennedy's Telegram: congratulations]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">B. A few days later President Kennedy wrote a memo on April 20,1961 to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the chairman of the Space Council. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Eight days later, Vice President Johnson responded to President Kennedy’s memo. Correspondence between JFK and LBJ on the space program



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> This is an excerpt of President Kennedy’s Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs, May 25, 1961. In this section the President discusses the nation’s space program and establishes a national goal “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Letter to Kennedy and his response <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Read the letter that Mary Lou Reitler wrote to President Kennedy asking him why the United States was spending so much money on the space program, as well as, the response she received from Myer Feldman (writing on behalf of President Kennedy).

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">During President Kennedy's time in office he spent a lot of money and attention on the space program. Here is a lesson plan for high school students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">[|Federal Budget Simulation Lesson Plan] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> In this lesson plan, high school students debate our nation's priorities by establishing their own "simulated" federal budgets. After analyzing the FY 2010 discretionary budget, students will be asked to design a FY 2011 budget with a group of their peers. Through the simulation, students will learn the importance of the budgeting process and that decisions concerning how our government spends its money form the basis of most national government policy