Learning to use and create maps builds young scholars' spatial thinking skills as well as language skills in the early years. In this instructional activity, students practice using the language of location and then apply that language...

This lesson offers a way to teach about the Underground Railroad by using maps and discussion about the problems fugitive slaves would encounter while trying to escape.

Students will use a copy of the Wilmot Proviso and a map used by President Polk in an address to Congress to debate whether territory acquired through the Mexican War should be free or slave states. This debate in Congress served as a...