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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJames Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State, Executive/Legislative
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students explore constitutional questions faced by James Madison. They...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica on the Move Exhibition - Section 1: Transportation in America Before 1876
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students explore the ways that the nation'...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, United States, History-Social Science, GeographyThe Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal helps students realize the role canals played in western expansion and in the evol...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChattanooga, Tennessee: Train Town
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, United States, History-Social Science, GeographyChattanooga, Tennessee: Train Town helps students see how geography and promotion combined to encourage the growth of Chattanoog...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, United States, History-Social Science, GeographyThe Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio tells how the construction of this canal transformed one of the...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Literary Analysis, United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsMarco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal is a lesson plan that draws on photos, texts, and other sources to help students learn ab...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRailroads in Antebellum Augusta and Franklin Counties
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: United States History, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Career & Technical EdIn this activity, from The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Project, University of Virginia, stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Trains and Railroads: From Wooden Track to Amtrak (1984)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue suggests ways of introducing the subject of trains and railroads in a social studies unit on westward expansion. Incl...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0