Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

This webquest is about Eleanor Roosevelt and how she and her husband, our 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped change America.

Standards

SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.
a. Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and Cesar Chavez (workers’ rights).
b. Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.

Credits

Thank you to....
- Brainpop.com
-FDR Library
-Georgiastandards.org/ IDMS Unit Plan
-Patricia Hood (Gifted Course Instructor)
-www.whitehouse.gov
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=79579