First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities and assessments for the text, Sugar.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, If Stones Could Speak.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for texts about Steve Jobs.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the text, Behind the Scenes.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, The Birchbark House.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, Shutting Out the Sky.

A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the text, Written in Bone.

After examining a map showing the expansion of the United States, click to read about each addition to the country and see where that addition is. Play Expansion Concentration to test your skills.

Interactive map showing free states and territories and slave states and territories before and after the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Click on the map to choose before or after and the key. Shockwave required.

This resource provides a biography of Thomas Jefferson that includes information on his early career, prelude to the presidency, and his presidency.

Westward migration, west of the Appalachians, resulted in a rapid population growth. Read about where the population exploded, and why the inland rivers were so important to the growth.

The geographical and political history of the west was linked with the process of defining boundaries, ownerships, and histories. Between 1682 and 1912 there was French Louisiana, Spanish Louisiana, back to French Louisiana, then...

This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

Read a description of the terms of the Louisiana Purchase. There is a map to show the land that was included in this deal.

The online companion to the Creole National Historical Park. You will find links to different Heritage Centers, as well as other sites dedicated to the history of Creole and the south.

This clickable map of the United States gives students access to research information from history and tourism to attractions and famous historic figures.

Uncover all the information you want to know about the Louisiana Superdome, home of the New Orleans Saints. Includes interesting facts and details about the facility and team, history of the venue, and news.

Baird's Pocket Gopher is also known as the Louisiana Pocket Gopher, though most of what is known about its ecology has come from studies of the species near College Station, Texas, and it occurs in Oklahoma and Arkansas as well as in...

Briefly explore the geography and history, meet the wildlife, and understand the conditions threatening Coastal Louisiana.

A comprehensive site on the development and history of the American West. In timeline fashion, this page details the events leading up to the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It continues with information about...

In this four-part lesson, students will demonstate knowledge of the sequencing of events by studying the westward journey, use terms that indicate the sequence of events and demonstrate an understanding of certain historical figures in...

A virtual library exhibit which explores how the United States history and Indian peoples along the expedition route, came together over two hundred years ago, and how they remain intertwined today.