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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, Geography, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts 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: Geography, History-Social Science, Immigration and Migration, 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 / 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, World History, United States 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, Immigration and Migration, United States History, Native PeoplesThe 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: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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, Early Explorers, 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 / HyperLinkThe Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Early Explorers, United States, United States HistoryThe 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: Geography, History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis 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: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, American Democracy, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis 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: Geography, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History 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: Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn 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, Early Explorers, 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 / 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, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, 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, Geography, United States HistoryThis 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, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkNorthern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States, United States HistoryNorthern 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