In this lesson, students will learn about the connection Native people have to their natural world. Students will make observations about how the A:shiwi (also known as Zuni) people adapt to their environment and the cyclical aspect of their cultural and agricultural practices. Students will expand their knowledge through independent research on another Native community and their interactions with the natural world.

Students will learn about America's first gold rush, which took place in North Carolina in the early 1800s. They will then utilize their understanding of the gold rush and its affect on North Carolina by completing a creative writing assignment.

In this resource, students can learn about the trade between continents during the 19th Century with the United States and Europe. This resource is connected with the Smithsonian Museums.

Students will review and examine colonial North America's economic, social, and political life by participating in a 13 colonies competition. Students will be able to explain the positive and negative impact human activity had on the physical environment of the United States. This lesson will culminate with students focusing on one colony of their choice for which they create an advertisement for settling that colony.

In this resource, students can learn about the geography of the United States through short videos, mini-activities, and practice questions. The eight questions in this segment cover topics such as, the longest rivers in the country, the oceans that border the country, and the states that border Canada and Mexico.
This site was designed with the needs of recent immigrants in mind. It is written at a “low-intermediate” ESL level.

In this activity, students examine an advertisement for available acreage in Nebraska and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.

Students compare and contrast plantations with sharecropping by analyzing and drawing maps. Students will also define sharecropping and explain the relationship between landowners and sharecroppers, then read a sharecropping contract and discuss the terms of agreement and fairness of the contract.

In this lesson, students learn about the engineering of the canal era of transportation. Students will use art supplies to create visual representations of a canal system.

In this lesson, students explore the various modes of transportation used to move west across North America in the 1800s. Then students will write an imaginary log about a train journey across the continent and use art supplies to create a scene from the west.

Students learn about the political, economic, and geographic regional differences that led to conflict in the United States through map sketches, primary sources, problem-solving and points of view.

This discussion guide is to be used in conjunction with the 4-part Wetlands Ecology video series (http://intotheoutdoors.org/topics/wetlands-wisdom/#available-videos).

Students gain a better understanding of geographic tools and their application for interpreting information. Students learn about why the early colonists settled in the areas they did and the types of economic patterns that emerged due to the physical environment. In the process, students differentiate between different types of regions and how they may develop based on human actions or their physical geography