The Nation Expands
Below are links to various materials we've created to support students' work on the unit theme: Crossing Frontiers.
- Unit Bibliography: This is a list of supplementary materials to help you to meet the needs of individual students in your classroom.
- Classroom Activities: To extend instruction, here are some creative activities you can print and use in your classroom.
- On the Oregon Trail (Language Arts/Social Studies)
- Rating the Presidents (Math/Language Arts/Social Studies)
- Theme Project Organizer: This is a worksheet you can print and distribute to students to help them track their work on the Theme Project.
- Theme Project Links: Here are Internet resources for students to use while working on the Theme Project.
Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Think Like a Geographer” feature for this unit: How Did Countries Agree on Borders?
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States
- The Color Landform Atlas of the United States contains topographical and political maps to the county level for each of the fifty states. Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state.
- http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- This site contains information on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the 1848 document that ended the Mexican War, and ceded to the United States the land that would become California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. The treaty also established the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas. The Web site contains an explanatory passage and the full text of the document.
- http://www.mchsmuseum.com/treaty.html
Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Citizenship” feature for this unit: Whose Vote Is It, Anyway?
- Kids Voting USA
- Did you know that kids can vote? This site describes the pioneering organization that makes it possible for kids to go to the polls. Kids Voting USA promotes the importance of being informed and the responsibilities of voting. Explain to students how the investigation survey compares with a local referendum vote.
- http://www.kidsvotingusa.org
- The History of Women's Suffrage in America
- The History Channel takes a look at the history of women and voting in the United States.
- http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/exhibits/woman/main.html
- Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
- Visit this Web site for an in-depth look at the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their efforts to win women the right to vote.
- http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony
- The Women's Rights Historical Park
- This site is the official homepage of the Women's Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York. The park commemorates the first women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls in 1848. The site contains information about the convention, with the full text of the Declaration of Sentiments, as well as biographies of its more famous participants, including Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- http://www.nps.gov/wori/wrnhp.htm