It’s Time to Teach Our Children About the Founding, First Principles, and the Amazing Country in Which They Live!

  

 

Welcome to my Bingo for Patriots site! This site is all about celebrating America and learning about the founding of this exceptional nation! The Founding is filled with fascinating individuals, information, and documents! I am creating teaching tools and products to help children about all of this information, as well as to become patriotic citizens. It has become my passion to teach children about our wonderful country, and I’m here to help you teach your children. Although there are some teachers who go the extra mile to teach about this subject, the subject of US history receives limited attention in most classrooms. Please click on the “What Does Your Child Know About Thomas Jefferson” link in the left column to read about inspired me to focus on this subject. You can see all of my patriotic bingo games by clicking on the “Patriotic Bingo Games” tab on the top menu bar.  

Here’s My Newest Game:

Download a Primary Source Analysis Tool for as little as 76 cents to use with any of the documents on this site!

A Clearing House about the Founders, Founding Documents, and Patriotism!

My goal for this website is to be a clearing house of information that parents and educators can use to teach young Americans about their country. Who are the Founders? What documents are associated with them? What do the documents say? What makes America such an exceptional country? How does all of this fit together? I am creating an information page about each Founder (and other fascinating individual associated with the Founding). Please send me any information, graphics, or documents associated with any individual on this site. I’d love to include it on the page. I am adding in documents associated with the colonies, the Founders, the Founding Documents, as well as the first 50 years of our country. You can help you children/students better understand the documents by downloading the primary source tools that I am developing. The documents will be tied to the author. If you have ideas about other information that I can include on this site, I’d love to hear them!

More than the Core Teaching Tools and Information

I am in the process of developing a series of teaching tools that focus on the Founders, the Founding Documents, and First Principles. They are aligned with the Common Core Standards and can be used at home or in the classroom. Use them as enrichment tools to add depth and complexity to the content knowledge areas associated with the Founding. The tools and products can be used in conjunction with the content standards for U.S. History that are set by the states. I like to think of them as helping our children know to know “more than the core!” For the most part, these materials will be available only as digital downloads, and they will be priced so that just about everyone can afford them. If you have any particular products that you would like to see developed, please let me know. 

Other Resources and Common Core Aligned Lesson Plans

I would also like to use this site to help parents and educators find quality resources to use in their efforts to educate young Americans. For example the National Archives has a wonderful Daily Document blog, and I have included it on the sidebar. Have you developed a lesson plan that will help children learn about the Founders, the Founding, First Principles, civic responsibility or patriotism? Is is aligned with the Common Core Standards and/or follows the content standards a particular state? Do you have a website that is filled with information about the Founding? If so, I’d love to include a link to it on this site.  If you know of resources that I can highlight for others, of have a lesson plan that you would like to have listed on this site, please send me an email: susan@uncommoncourtesy.com

This is a sister site to my UnCommon Courtesy site. With more than 200 bingo games and concentration sets on my Uncommon Courtesy site,  If you are looking for holiday, religious, educational, or party themed bingo games, please visit my  website: www.uncommoncourtesy.com. 

Please consider supporting my efforts by mentioning this site to others, linking to this site, and downloading one of my games or products. Let’s work together to educate American youth about the Founding and First Principles! Thanks!