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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMyth and Truth: "The First Thanksgiving"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceBy exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims, and the "First Thanksgiving," this lesson from ReadWriteThink asks s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBattling for Liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's Language of Resistance
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, extends the study of Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech to demonstrate ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPocahontas Marries John Rolfe
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the facts and fiction surrounding the legend of Pocahontas. A classroom activity is feat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students learn how Puritans interacted with Native Americans, and how to gain information about ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCaifornia H/SS Course Model-Relationships Between the Colonists and Indians
Grades: 5Subjects: History-Social ScienceThis California H/SS Course Model helps Students describe the cooperation and conflict that existed among the Indians and betwee...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkParallel Histories: Spain, United States, and the American Frontier
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Early Explorers, United States History, History-Social ScienceParallel Histories: Spain, United States, and the American Frontier explores the history of Spanish expansion into North America...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRaid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Native Peoples, United States, Geography, United States History, History-Social ScienceRaid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704 tells the story that began when 300 French and Native allies invaded the English set...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Trail of Tears: The Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Native Peoples, Immigration and Migration, United States History, History-Social ScienceThe 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 / HyperLinkSpanish Treasure Fleets of 1715 and 1733: Disasters Strike at Sea
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: World History, United States History, History-Social ScienceSpanish Treasure Fleets of 1715 and 1733: Disasters Strike at Sea discusses Spain's search for gold and silver in the New World ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSioux Treaty of 1868
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Writing Strategies, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the power granted to the president and the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResources for Teaching American History: Native American History
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.The multimedia site includes teacher-selected primary sources, a video on Lakota winter counts, and six Advanced Placement DBQs ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMyth and Truth: The “First Thanksgiving”
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceBy exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the "First Thanksgiving," this lesson asks students to think cri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTecumseh's speech to the Osages in the winter of 1811-1812
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, World History, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from Galafilm, features the text of Tecumseh s speech to the Osages in the winter of 1811-1812. This resource is ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe First Thanksgiving
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from Scholastic, author Kate Waters and photographer Russ Kendall explore what it was like to travel on the Mayf...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students read "The Chieftan's Daughter" and are shown the fresco that tells the legend of Pocahontas. A class discussion follows...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Brief Biography of Sequoyah
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Electives, Foreign Languages, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis page, from the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, provides a biography of Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee writing system. S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Psychology, Electives 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