Westward Expansion by Crystal Cat https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w The big picture en-us 2014-03-10 00:12:56 UTC 2014-03-10 00:15:45 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d262le4z25sx36.cloudfront.net/portraits/announcement.jpg 1803-The Louisiana Purchase  sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23033696 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.

]]> 2014-03-10 00:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23033696 1805-Lewis and Clark Expedition sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23033948 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.

]]> 2014-03-10 00:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23033948 Video sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034413 2014-03-10 00:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034413 Video sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034438 Lewis and Clark

]]> 2014-03-10 00:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034438 1845-Manifest Destiny  sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034566 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.

]]> 2014-03-10 00:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034566 American Progress sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034631 Lesson Plan -http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/united-states-history/manifest-destiny-westward-expansion
]]> 2014-03-10 00:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034631 1830: Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears  sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034736 Congress passes a law to move Native Americans from the Southeast to the west of the Mississippi River.

]]> 2014-03-10 00:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23034736 Lesson Plan sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23035488

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

Powerpoint

]]> 2014-03-10 00:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23035488 1862-Homestead Act sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23035944 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.

]]> 2014-03-10 01:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23035944 1869-Transcontinental Railroad sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23035955 The Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory, Utah and the railroad is completed.

]]> 2014-03-10 01:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23035955 Video sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036005 2014-03-10 01:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036005 Essential Questions sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036085 Why did people move west?

]]> 2014-03-10 01:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036085 Essential Questions sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036120 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?

]]> 2014-03-10 01:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036120 Essential Questions sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036162 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?

]]> 2014-03-10 01:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036162 Activity sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036376 Build Wagons and learn about how they traveled on the trail

]]> 2014-03-10 01:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036376 Activity sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036466 Frontier life - http://www.ducksters.com/history/westward_expansion/daily_life_on_the_frontier.php

]]> 2014-03-10 01:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23036466 Interactive Map sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037090 2014-03-10 01:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037090 Lesson Plan sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037154 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/teachers.html

]]> 2014-03-10 01:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037154 1836-1869 Oregon Trail sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037706 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

]]> 2014-03-10 01:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037706 Essential Questoins sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037848 How did the Homestead act and other events of the time motivate familes to move west?

]]> 2014-03-10 01:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037848 Essential Questions sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037879 What were the hardships faced by settlers on the Oregon Trail?

]]> 2014-03-10 01:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037879 Essential Questions sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037930 How did the reailroad change life in the new country?

]]> 2014-03-10 01:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037930 Activity sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037949 Write a persuasive essay encouraging families to move west

Guided Reading and Questions

]]> 2014-03-10 01:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23037949 Activity sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23038117 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

]]> 2014-03-10 01:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/23038117 Needs of Learners: sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25378850 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.

]]> 2014-04-07 00:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25378850 Needs for Learners sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25378953 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.

]]> 2014-04-07 00:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25378953 Needs for Learners sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379025 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.

]]> 2014-04-07 00:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379025 Students Needs sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379123 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

]]> 2014-04-07 00:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379123 Students needs/Strengths sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379198 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.

]]> 2014-04-07 00:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379198 Students needs sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379260 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

]]> 2014-04-07 00:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379260 Students Needs sunny5546 https://padlet.com/sunny5546/aq3q6al6w/wish/25379427 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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