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Using a variety of online resources, learners study life and society in California during the gold rush. They use a map to identify area where gold was located, explore pre-selected websites, describe mining practices, and create an advertisement to the transcontinental railroad. All these activities culminate in a portfolio and an interesting essay.
Students examine the effects the Transcontinental Railroad had on the regions through which it passed. They analyze and discuss maps, view and describe online images, and use photos and documents to develop a cause-and-effect ladder.
Students analyze the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on life and the environment in the Nineteenth Century.
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this Western Expansion lesson plan, students conduct research to find out how the Transcontinental Railroad fueled territorial expansion in the United States and Canada. Students write essays about the immigration influx, the adjustment of Native Americans, or the trip west for settlers.
Young scholars search selected Internet sites to complete a WebQuest on the Transcontinental Railroad. For this Westward Movement lesson, students use the provided forms to complete the WebQuest that requires them to consider the impact of the railroad on American growth.
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the historical significance of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Golden Spike Ceremony in Promontory, Utah, which honored its completion. In one activity they plan and recreate a grander, more appropriate Golden Spike ceremony.
Students investigate the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad. In this Transcontinental Railroad lesson plan, students research Internet and print sources regarding the effect of the railroad on Chinese immigrants and American Indians, railroad promotors, and passengers.
Students examine the expansion of the U.S. into the West. In this Western Expansion lesson, students examine primary sources regarding emigration incentives to Americans and Canadians who moved West. Students also explore the role of the Transcontinental Railroad in Westward Expansion.
Middle schoolers interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this Transcontinental Railroad lesson, students conduct research as they complete the provided Web Quest about American society in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Middle schoolers determine how the railroad changed the American West.
Students stop action and determine how history may have been altered. In this historical perspectives lesson, students consider how the Cherokee Removal, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Immigration Act of 1924, and the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been different.