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Students are paired in teams with an eighth grader leading a fourth grader to better comprehend a historical document. They should both studying the Northwest Territory at the same time, but the fourth graders should not be able to analyze the historical document alone. Students work together in pairs to help one another read and decipher the document.
Students examine the area where the Northwest Territory was located. They discover the steps territories need to follow to become states. They create a map of the Northwest Territory and label the states that came out of that region.
Students use the Atlas of Canada to find basic geographical information about the Northwest Territories.
Explore the lives of American Indians and early settlers in the state of Ohio. Young native Ohioans (or members of another state) research primary and secondary multimedia sources that detail the history between American Indians and Ohio settlers. Then they produce a talk show where they role-play the history between the two groups. As a cumulative activity, they make a timeline of significant events from that time period.
Students use maps to compare the area of the modern state of Wisconsin to its boundaries when it was part of the Norwest Territories. They match dates to important events in Wisconsin history.
Students define the words: republic, Articles of Condederation, survey, Northwest Ordinance, republicanism, ordinance, ratified, and Northwest Territory. They view the video Charlie Brown Constitution.
Learners go on a Web quest to learn about the origins and formation of the Constitution of the United States. They search for "A Roadmap to the Constitution of the United States and answer the questions included in the instructional activity. Finally, students create a quiz from their assigned questions to share with the class.
Students write 1-4 sentence answers to the Time Travel worksheet (available online). They design period costumes, orally present their perspectives to the rest of the class, and explain why this war played an important role in the expansion of the United States.
Eighth graders participate in a role-playing game to discover the difficulties facing developing nations. Through the game, an adaptation of "Risk," they explore themes dealing with global poverty, humanitarian assistance, international development, and the Millennium Development Goals.
Students work together to analyze the six natural regions of Canada. Using this information, they create a visual representation of each region on a large wall map and present it to the class. They must identify five key points of each region.