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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTribal Truths: Exploring the American-Indian Perspectives Toward the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Geography, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students research and analyze the interactions of American Indian trib...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTrails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Geography, United States, Immigration and MigrationTrails 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 / HyperLinkThe U.S. - Mexican War on PBS
Grades: 8Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, Immigration and MigrationThe U.S. Mexican War (1846-1848) is a PBS Documentary that recounts "the dramatic story of a war in which Mexico lost almost hal...Contributor: Molly LargeViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe U.S. - Mexican War (1846-1848)
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World HistoryThis resource is the online companion for the documentary The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). The site provides a thoughtful stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Trail of Tears: The Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Native Peoples, Immigration and MigrationThe Trail of Tears: The Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation tells about the removal of the Cherokee Nation from their ances...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Electives, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History and 2 additional..In this lesson plan, from the National Park Service, students identify the sources of conflict between American settlers and the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Early ExplorersThe 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 / HyperLinkThe Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Early Explorers, Geography, United StatesThe Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest recounts the expedition's crossing of the Lemhi Pass and Lol...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lewis and Clark Expedition
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American Democracy, GeographyThis lesson relates to the power granted to the president and the Senate in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lewis and Clark Expedition
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American Democracy, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis lesson relates to the power granted to the president and the Senate in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman, 1836-1847
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Electives, Literary Analysis, Geography, History-Social Science and 2 additional..These letters and journals are written by Narcissa Whitman, a woman migrating from Pennsylvania to Oregon in the 19th century. T...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Plains: A Harsh Welcome to Settlers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, GeographyIn this Xpeditions lesson, students consider the experiences of settlers on the American Great Plains in the late 1800s. They ex...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: History-Social Science, United States History, Early ExplorersRivers, 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 / HyperLinkResources for Teaching American History: Westward Expansion
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The multimedia site includes teacher-selected primary sources, Advanced Placement DBQs, a video on the painting Westward the Cou...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features approximately 3,000 photographs from the Solomon D. Butcher...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPBS Lewis and Clark: Journal Entries
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, GeographyThis 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: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History, Geography, English-Language ArtsThis 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: History-Social Science, United States History, GeographyIn 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 / HyperLinkNorthern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Geography, United StatesNorthern Great Plains, 1880-1920 shows 900 photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections of rura...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0