Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Blackfoot
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Blackfoot people. An American Indian group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Beaver
With this resource the students will learn about the origins and the culture of the American Indian group the Beaver people.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Contested Territories
This site highlights the westward expansion of settlers in North America and the effects this expansion had on Native Americans between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: New France
A comprehensive learning module on New France that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include where the French explored and...
Texas A&M University
Csfa: Circum Pacific Research by the Csfa
Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A & M University is researching many different sites across North America looking in to theories of "Clovis First" and "Pre-Clovis" as to who were the first people to inhabit North...
Other
Simon Frasier University: A Journey to a New Land
This interactive site examines questions about early human migration to North America offers grade-level appropriate information for primary, elementary, middle, secondary and post-secondary levels. Teacher resources, simulations, video,...
Smithsonian Institution
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Paleoamerican Origins
This detailed article from the Encyclopedia Smithsonian lays out the theories and evidence of who were the earliest inhabitants of North and South America. Beginning with the traditional theory of migration using the land bridge, and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Coastal Communities Collection
This collection features videos that describe . ECHO members include people from Alaska Native Heritage Center and North Slope Borough ECHO Project in Alaska; Bishop Museum in Hawai'i; New Bedford ECHO Project and Peabody Essex Museum in...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Metoac
A brief description of the Long Island Indians known as the Metoac on this site. Learn that the Metoac group includes a few tribes that lived in Long Island New York.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ponca
Learn about the culture of the Ponca Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, cultural values, and dwellings.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Omaha
Learn about the culture of the Omaha Native American tribe. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Teton
A page containing information about an Indian tribe known as the Teton who live in South Dakota. Investigate their family life, economy, religion, and history.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nootka
Learn about the culture of the Native American tribe Nootka. Explore topics such as their history, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Wichita
A brief overview of an Indian group that lived on the Southern Plains.
Tramline
A Desert Virtual Field Trip
Travel with your students on a virtual field trip and explore the deserts of the world! This is site is interactive and informative.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Habitats: Prairie
Learn what prairies are, about the plants and wildlife that live there, and about the environmental efforts being made to restore them.
Other
Ohio Historical Society: Historic Period
Enter the Europeans into the woods and plains of central North America. How did this effect the people that were here already? Who was here, and what happened when worlds collide? Click on the thumbnail images for more information on the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: British Possessions in North America, 1775
A map showing the British possessions in North America in 1775, before the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War. The map shows the boundaries of the British Colonies along the Atlantic, the Proclamation Line of...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico and Western North America, 1845
A map of Mexico in 1845, prior to the ceding of the northern territories to the United States in 1846. The map shows the territories of Oregon, Texas, and Central America under Mexican control, and the frontiers of the Missouri and...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: The Location of the Eastern Indian Tribes, 1600s
A map from 1911 of eastern North America showing the general areas of early contact between the Native Americans and European settlers. The map is divided by groups (Algonquians, Iroquoians, Siouans, and Muskhogeans) and the principal...
Curated OER
Leni Lenape Indians, 1654
One modern historical assessment and several original accounts of the mistrust, negotiations, alliances, trading, and disease transmission between European colonizers and native peoples in North America.
Other
Ohio History: Virtual First Ohioans
This award-winning resource from the Ohio Historical Society presents Ohio's first cultures: PaleoIndian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, and Late Prehistoric Period cultures. Click on each period for additional information and great...
Other
Eastern Band of Cherokee: History and Culture
A brief history of the Cherokee tribe in the southwest United States, its culture, government, and religion. Find out about the Cherokee who were subject to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and see how the Cherokee in North Carolina have...