The Dirksen Center wants to help teachers teach better by giving them the opportunity to use technology to create, customize, and share online learning activities in their classrooms. The Center wants to help students learn more by bringing educational resources together in one place that provide new ways to learn about Congress interactively.

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You can listen to the information about President-Elect Obama first, and then students can click on “Online Exercise.” This feature also has a number of activities you can print-out.

Find Barack Obama at: http://www.congressforkids.net/games/executivebranch/2_execbranch.htm

Trivia: This trivia quiz is to see how much you really know about our past presidents. You will be given part of an Inaugural speech and you have to guess which president said it.

Part of an Inaugural Speech: “The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God”?

1. Richard M. Nixon
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy [Answer: President John F. Kennedy gave this famous inaugural speech on Friday, January 20, 1961.]
4. Lyndon B. Johnson

*Find the answer in next month's issue.

Answer to November 2008's Fun, Facts, and Trivia: http://www.webcommunicator.org/classroomresources/funfactstrivia_ans1108.htm

Do you have or know of an online activity you would like The Dirksen Congressional Center to feature on its new Web site for students -- Congress for Kids? The Center is currently seeking online activities that provide new ways to learn about Congress and the workings of the federal government interactively.

If you have questions or suggestions for online activities, contact Cindy Koeppel.