Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: New Modes of Transport in 19th Century America [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines how new technology and scientific advances of the nineteenth century changed America. Includes ideas for directing students through a...
Handout
Other

Forest Preserve District of Cook County (Illinois): River Steamboats

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the invention and development of steamboats as a mode of transportation.