
Recommended Children's and Pedagogy Literature: Exploring America/Westward Expansion
I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the westward migration to students in intermediate-level grades: Discovery...
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I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the westward migration to students in intermediate-level grades: Discovery...

The Library of Congress , American Memory Collection , offers a a resource titled " Evolution of the Conservation Movement ," a collection o...

Though the book has nothing to do with U.S. history, I thought the attached tri-fold brochure sample report on the book Hatchet may motivate...

Lecture: Michael Green - Exploration

Lecture: DeAnna Beachley - Exploration II

Lecture: DeAnna Beachley - Exploration I

"Women in Nevada and California Mining Camps" —A lecture by DeAnna Beachley, Ph.D.

For those teachers who enjoy using food to teach history while simultaneously teaching math, science, and literacy, you may find the followi...

Herb Thompson of the Geographic Alliance in Nevada developed a lesson strategy in which students place a series of items in order (e.g., mou...

Note: The lesson "Picture North America" was originally developed by John Pauli, a teacher consultant with the Geographic Alliance in Nevada...

Delise Sanders of Sumner Schools presented at the 2008 National Council of History Education Annual Conference on the topic of integrating w...

One of the resources I found particularly helpful in informing my knowledge of literacy integration into history instruction was Teaching Li...

Exploring America and Children's Literature

These slides are from the PowerPoint presentation delivered on April 9, 2007. The topic for the slides was "Teaching Literacy through Histor...

These slides are from the PowerPoint presentation delivered on October 22, 2008. The topic for the slides was "Teaching Reading through Hist...

" Nevada Humanities is a nonprofit organization that creates and supports projects throughout the state of Nevada that broaden perspectives...

Suggestions for alternative assessment methods are available in Sandra Schurr's text titled The ABCs of Evaluation . Though this book is no...

Laura Ingalls Wilder's works are continued past the Little House series in a book called A Little House Traveler . In the book, she relates...

The below blogs will be developed during the Teaching American History grant module on Exploring the Americas and Children's Literature. The...

Click here to access the expectations and grading rubric for the Teacher's Guide assignment. In response to a module participant's request f...

You will complete a book review based on your reading of the Joy and Riley content texts. Use this template for completing your book review....

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Click here for the module syllabus .