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This lesson is strong because it provides students with thoughtful questions that develop a critical understanding on how the railroad changed the united states. I will adapt this for my students by working through the questions as a class in order to check for understandings.

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Students will be researching about covered wagons and will have the opportunity to look in books and online. I will have articles printed off and allow for highlighters to be used in order to strengthen their data finding skills. This is a piggy back off of their research unit

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This lesson is strong becauase it allows for students to learn about the homested act and then also create a contract with the clauses that it included. This will be adapted for my classroom into a writing lesson in order to build on their writing for a purpse strenths.

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The lesson plan I found does not address the WHY of Manifest destiny. I will give students the opportunity to anylize both the painting and the news paper article to create a definition for Manifest destiny and then they will come up with the why and connect that to the whole idea of westward expansion

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This lesson will be taught in groups. I will have accomidations for two groups that include a reference sheet to terms and events. I will also provide an audio playing of the primary source for students to folllow along to. The origanl lesson had students read it fully, however for my students i think they woiuld get more out of it following along to the audio.

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I will provide a movie guide for the students that will highlight important events in the movie. I will also stop the movie frequently to check for understanding and clairfication.

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Teacher will sit with low group and read through the Louisiana purchase and answer questions in a group. Also, provide meaning to words that are unclear.

The extension for this lesson will the essay questions on the back. This will challenge students to think critcally about what happened and build connections.

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Lewis and Clark and Me book

Nat Geo Movie

Lewis and Clark Explores of American West

Compare journals to the dog's journals

Map Making? http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/l03.html

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Write a persuasive essay encouraging families to move west

Guided Reading and Questions

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How did the reailroad change life in the new country?

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What were the hardships faced by settlers on the Oregon Trail?

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How did the Homestead act and other events of the time motivate familes to move west?

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One of the most feasible ways for settlers to get across the mountains. 1/10 people died on the trail. Travel on this trail ended when the railroad was completed

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/teachers.html

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Frontier life - http://www.ducksters.com/history/westward_expansion/daily_life_on_the_frontier.php

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Build Wagons and learn about how they traveled on the trail

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How did Andrew Jackson's policies affect the American Indians?

American Indian perspective differ from those of the pioneers

How did the gold rush have an impact on the settlers and Native Americans?

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What path and methods were used to travel?

What did setters find in the new regions?

What were the objectives of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

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Why did people move west?

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Watch American Railroad Clip - Mankind The Story of All of Us | HISTORY

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Watch the American Railroad video clip of HISTORY's series Mankind The Story of All of Us'. Find this and many more videos only on HISTORY.

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The Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory, Utah and the railroad is completed.

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The U.S. government offers up free land to farmers who agree to live on the land for five years and make improvements to the land. Many people rush to places like Oklahoma to claim their land.

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Share primary sources and answer questions about what happened to the Native Americans during the Act

Powerpoint

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1830: Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears  

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1830: Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears  

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Congress passes a law to move Native Americans from the Southeast to the west of the Mississippi River.

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John Gast
Lesson Plan -http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/united-states-history/manifest-destiny-westward-expansion

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Many people in the United States believed it was the country's destiny to expand westward all the way to the Pacific Ocean. This belief became known as the Manifest Destiny.

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Lewis and Clark

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led a government-sponsored expedition to explore the new territory. Traveling 8,000 miles the expedition gathered information about the landscapes to make maps, plants, animals, resources, and people (mostly Native Americans) it encountered.

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Thomas Jefferson purchased the land from France for 15 million dollars. The land more than doubled the size of the United States. The land went from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountians.