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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTrails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, Immigration and Migration, History-Social Science, United States, United States HistoryTrails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 features 49 diaries of pioneers who traveled westward across Amer...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThere's No Place Like Home
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Geography, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson uses children's literature and maps to explore reasons for past and present settlement. Students give var...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Early Explorers, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery provides games, quizzes, profiles of members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and les...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSodbusters!
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students examine photographs of sod houses, build a model sod house, and picture themselves liv...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSod Homes: Be It Ever So Humble
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, Visual ArtsPart of the Northern Great Plains Web project, Sod Homes provides an overview of sod construction techniques in North Dakota...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Lewis and Clark and the Language of Discovery
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Lesson plans focus on Lewis and Clark as keepers of journals.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Early Explorers, History-Social Science, United States HistoryRivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America looks at historical maps, relations with Indians, and expedit...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPioneers Moved West in the Early 1800s
Grades: 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from the Educator s Reference Desk, students learn about the struggles and hardships of pioneer life as they res...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPioneer America: Pioneer Living
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, Literature and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn about what life was like for early American pioneers. Aft...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPioneer America: Legendary Westerners
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Visual Arts and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students study legendary westerners during the period of westward expans...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPioneer America: Journey West
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Geography, Theatre, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn about the early pioneers in America and their motivations...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPBS Lewis and Clark: Journal Entries
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Geography, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis Lewis and Clark Web site, from PBS, features journal entries from the expedition. The journal excerpts are from the separat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn This Day with Lewis and Clark
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Geography, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis five-lesson unit, from EDSITEment, is designed to help students appreciate the immensity and mystery of the mission Lewis a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn the Oregon Trail
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLouisiana Purchase Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: World History, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis page, from Yale Law School s Avalon Project, provides links to nearly twenty primary documents related to the 1803 Louisian...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentLife in a Sod House: Darkroom Detectives
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Literature, Geography, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryWhat can we learn about life in a sod house by looking at photographs? In this activity, from the OurStory series produced by t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark: "The Object of This Mission"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this Xpeditions lesson, students compete against each other for the best "land" and "resources" in the classroom as a way to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, United States History, Life SciencesThis resource, from the Missouri Historical Society, features a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, that brings together, for the fir...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark Online Base Camp
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryVenture into the unexplored American west with Lewis and Clark in this National Geographic interactive feature. Follow the trail...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark: Mapping the West
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, Early Explorers, History-Social Science, United States HistoryLewis and Clark: Mapping the West features maps of the famous expedition. The Corps of Discovery collected 30 maps from Indians...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0