Economics
Here are the links the students will use to complete this activity. They are in order.
Where food is grown in each state:
https://monsanto.com/innovations/modern-agriculture/articles/crop-map/
When foods are grown in Illinois:
https://www.ufseeds.com/learning/planting-schedules/illinois-vegetable-planting-calendar/
How buying local effects a local economy:
https://sustainableconnections.org/why-buy-local/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/Roots-of-sustainability/
Where food is grown in each state:
https://monsanto.com/innovations/modern-agriculture/articles/crop-map/
When foods are grown in Illinois:
https://www.ufseeds.com/learning/planting-schedules/illinois-vegetable-planting-calendar/
How buying local effects a local economy:
https://sustainableconnections.org/why-buy-local/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/Roots-of-sustainability/
A
1. Geography of the United States-Essential Question: What can geography teach us about the United States?
Latitude and Longitude Lesson Plan
2. American Indians and Their Land -Essential Question: How did American Indians adapt to different environments in North America?
Native American Tribes
3. American Indian Cultural Regions -Essential Question: How and why did American Indian cultural regions differ?
4. How and Why Europeans Came to the New World -Essential Question: What did explorers take to and from the New World during the Age of Exploration?
Trading Card
5. Routes of Exploration to the New World-Essential Question: How did exploration of the Americas lead to settlement?
6. Early English Settlements-Essential Question: What challenges faced the first English colonies?
7. Comparing the Colonies-Essential Question: How were the three colonial regions alike and different?
8. Facing Slavery-Essential Question: What was the impact of slavery on Africans?
9. Life in Colonial Williamsburg-Essential Question: What were key parts of life for Southern colonists in the 1700s?
10.Tensions Grow Between the Colonies and Great Britain-Essential Question: What British actions angered the colonists in the 1700s?
http://www.christina.k12.de.us/maclary/library/revolutionary_war_webquest.htm
11. To Declare Independence or Not -Essential Question: What were the arguments for and against colonial independence from Great Britain?
12. The Declaration of Independence -Essential Question: What are the main ideas in the Declaration of Independence?
Activity one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7MI8NQLoo
Activity two:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_philadelphia1776.html
Activity three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpz29Kh_C8Y
Activity four:
https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/
Activity five:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZK2CF3mZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3Cs8EgOQo
13. The American Revolution -Essential Question: How did the colonists win the American Revolution?
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/social_studies/revolutionary_war/quiz414.html
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywar1.htm
http://www.christina.k12.de.us/maclary/library/revolutionary_war_webquest.htmwww.christina.k12.de.us/maclary/library/revolutionary_war_webquest.htm
14. The Constitution -Essential Question: What are the key features of the U.S. Constitution?
Questions 1-9
Questions 10-14
Questions 15-18
Questions 19-20
Types of Governments
Branches of Government Game
15. The Bill of Rights -Essential Question: What are the basic rights and freedoms of the American people?
16. Manifest Destiny and Settling the West-Essential Question: How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?
WebQuest:
http://members.tripod.com/~jtlawson/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/wars_end_guadalupe.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/jd/16321.htm
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fulton.htm
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/hist-ov/hist-ov2.shtml
http://oregontrail101.com/
Westward Trails Exploration
https://mccannsclass.weebly.com/westward-expansion.html
17. The Diverse Peoples of the West-Essential Question: What drew new settlers to the western part of the United States in the 1800s?
18. The Causes of the Civil War-Essential Question: What factors helped drive apart the North and the South in the mid-
Civil War Comprehension
Causes of Civil War Video Part One
Causes of Civil War Video Part Two
Animated Hero: Abraham Lincoln
Freedom Crossing: Tryons Folly
Civil War Webquest
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/missouricompromisedef.htm
http://mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/kansasnebraska/
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/a-hard-shove-for-a-nation-on-the-brink/the-decision.php
http://history1800s.about.com/od/1800sglossary/g/abolitdef.htm
http://www.teachushistory.org/kansas-nebraska-act-bleeding-kansas
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_brown_1.html
Animated Hero: Harriet Tubman
19. The Civil War-Essential Question: What factors contributed to the outcome of the Civil War?
Websites for Questions Question 1. http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/why.html
Question 2. https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/history-of-mechanical-engineering/how-the-cotton-gin-started-the-civil-war
Question 3. Answer
Question 4. None
Question 5. Part 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise
Part 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850
Question 6. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
Question 7. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/dred.htm
Question 8. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
Question 9. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/abraham-lincoln/
Question 10 http://www.civilwarhome.com/csa.htm
Question 11 http://www.civilwarhome.com/ftsumter.htm
Question 12 https://www.biography.com/people/stonewall-jackson-9351451
Question 13 https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/robert-e-lee
Question 14 https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation
Question 15 https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg
MISSION US
Scholastic Underground Railroad
20. Industrialization and the Modern United States-Essential Question: How has life in the United States changed since the Civil War?
1. Geography of the United States-Essential Question: What can geography teach us about the United States?
Latitude and Longitude Lesson Plan
2. American Indians and Their Land -Essential Question: How did American Indians adapt to different environments in North America?
Native American Tribes
3. American Indian Cultural Regions -Essential Question: How and why did American Indian cultural regions differ?
4. How and Why Europeans Came to the New World -Essential Question: What did explorers take to and from the New World during the Age of Exploration?
Trading Card
5. Routes of Exploration to the New World-Essential Question: How did exploration of the Americas lead to settlement?
6. Early English Settlements-Essential Question: What challenges faced the first English colonies?
7. Comparing the Colonies-Essential Question: How were the three colonial regions alike and different?
8. Facing Slavery-Essential Question: What was the impact of slavery on Africans?
9. Life in Colonial Williamsburg-Essential Question: What were key parts of life for Southern colonists in the 1700s?
10.Tensions Grow Between the Colonies and Great Britain-Essential Question: What British actions angered the colonists in the 1700s?
http://www.christina.k12.de.us/maclary/library/revolutionary_war_webquest.htm
11. To Declare Independence or Not -Essential Question: What were the arguments for and against colonial independence from Great Britain?
12. The Declaration of Independence -Essential Question: What are the main ideas in the Declaration of Independence?
Activity one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7MI8NQLoo
Activity two:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_philadelphia1776.html
Activity three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpz29Kh_C8Y
Activity four:
https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/
Activity five:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZK2CF3mZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3Cs8EgOQo
13. The American Revolution -Essential Question: How did the colonists win the American Revolution?
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/social_studies/revolutionary_war/quiz414.html
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywar1.htm
http://www.christina.k12.de.us/maclary/library/revolutionary_war_webquest.htmwww.christina.k12.de.us/maclary/library/revolutionary_war_webquest.htm
14. The Constitution -Essential Question: What are the key features of the U.S. Constitution?
Questions 1-9
Questions 10-14
Questions 15-18
Questions 19-20
Types of Governments
Branches of Government Game
15. The Bill of Rights -Essential Question: What are the basic rights and freedoms of the American people?
16. Manifest Destiny and Settling the West-Essential Question: How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?
WebQuest:
http://members.tripod.com/~jtlawson/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/wars_end_guadalupe.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/jd/16321.htm
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fulton.htm
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/hist-ov/hist-ov2.shtml
http://oregontrail101.com/
Westward Trails Exploration
https://mccannsclass.weebly.com/westward-expansion.html
17. The Diverse Peoples of the West-Essential Question: What drew new settlers to the western part of the United States in the 1800s?
18. The Causes of the Civil War-Essential Question: What factors helped drive apart the North and the South in the mid-
Civil War Comprehension
Causes of Civil War Video Part One
Causes of Civil War Video Part Two
Animated Hero: Abraham Lincoln
Freedom Crossing: Tryons Folly
Civil War Webquest
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/missouricompromisedef.htm
http://mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/kansasnebraska/
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/a-hard-shove-for-a-nation-on-the-brink/the-decision.php
http://history1800s.about.com/od/1800sglossary/g/abolitdef.htm
http://www.teachushistory.org/kansas-nebraska-act-bleeding-kansas
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_brown_1.html
Animated Hero: Harriet Tubman
19. The Civil War-Essential Question: What factors contributed to the outcome of the Civil War?
Websites for Questions Question 1. http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/why.html
Question 2. https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/history-of-mechanical-engineering/how-the-cotton-gin-started-the-civil-war
Question 3. Answer
Question 4. None
Question 5. Part 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise
Part 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850
Question 6. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
Question 7. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/dred.htm
Question 8. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
Question 9. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/abraham-lincoln/
Question 10 http://www.civilwarhome.com/csa.htm
Question 11 http://www.civilwarhome.com/ftsumter.htm
Question 12 https://www.biography.com/people/stonewall-jackson-9351451
Question 13 https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/robert-e-lee
Question 14 https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation
Question 15 https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg
MISSION US
Scholastic Underground Railroad
20. Industrialization and the Modern United States-Essential Question: How has life in the United States changed since the Civil War?