George Washington

Here’s a simple slide show on George Washington — one that 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders will find easy to understand. I know how hard it is to find something that students on a primary level can relate to, because as a teacher I’ve tried to do just that. This slide show will give your students great visuals plus the basic information they need about our first president. The unit includes a narrative script of six pages with over 70 detailed notes on the 22 slides I’ve put together. Information includes:

• Birth and childhood
• Surveying
• Mount Vernon and farming
• Early military career
• Marriage
• Revolutionary War
• Valley Forge
• Surrender
• First president
• Return to Mount Vernon
• Death
• Extra facts

The script is available as a PDF — feel free to use as much of the information as your class can take in. The slide show is available as an Apple Keynote and a Microsoft PowerPoint.

Please, take a look at the slideshows on Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, Lewis and Clark and other historical figures I have created.