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1850-1874 Homestead Act Signed: The Challenges of The Plains Lesson Plan1850-1874 Homestead Act Signed: The Challenges of The Plains Lesson Plan
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NET Foundation for Television
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4th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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1850-1874 Homestead Act Signed: The Challenges of The Plains

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This 1850-1874 Homestead Act Signed: The Challenges of The Plains lesson plan also includes:
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  • Keeping Warm
  • Lunch, Photographs and Watermelons!
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  • Primary Source
  • Map
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Start a whole new life in a land known as the Wild Wild West! Learners analyze maps, personal accounts, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, songs, and video clips to uncover life under the Homestead Act. Using their new skills, class members role play and discuss what life was truly like for the Homesteaders of the Great Plains in the mid 1850s. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the homestead act, the great plains, landform maps

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Place large, detailed maps and photographs of the West around the room for the duration of the lessons for reference points
  • Create research teams that stay together for the unit to assist students who struggle with the reading and analyzation portions of the lessons

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  • Lessons are specifically designed for certain grade levels; take note and plan according to your individual classroom

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  • Resource provides detailed lesson plans for teacher use and adaptation
  • Lesson includes printable worksheets and materials for classroom use

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Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.3 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3

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