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National Park Service: Adeline Hornbeck and the Homestead Act Lesson PlanNational Park Service: Adeline Hornbeck and the Homestead Act Lesson Plan
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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National Park Service: Adeline Hornbeck and the Homestead Act

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This Teaching with Historic Places lesson effectively depicts the life of a pioneer woman and ways in which the Homestead Act impacted her life. The site includes lesson plans, inquiry questions, and photos that may be used in covering Women's History and/or Homestead Act.

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Concepts

colorado history, the american west

Additional Tags

farming the plains, homesteading, pioneer homes, pioneer life, settling the frontier, women homesteaders, women on the frontier, adeline hornbeck, florissant valley, colorado, homestead act, nps, national park service, us national parks, western expansion, western pioneers, womens history, general historic information about colorado, homestead act, 1862

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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