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Curated OER

Recovering Under-examined Histories to Build Community

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students read Diane Glancy's "Pushing the Bear" about the Cherokee Removal and respond online to a discussion board. They discuss responses in class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Australian Travel Adventure

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are introduced to the states and territories within Australia. Using the internet, they bookmark sites and take notes on what they want to share with their classmates. They also complete a map study on the country to...
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL: Passive Voice

For Students 5th - 7th
In this ESL passive voice worksheet, students fill in blanks in a set of 20 sentences, choosing the correct form of a verb given, using the tense indicated in parentheses.
Assessment
Curated OER

ESL: Homonyms

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL homonym worksheet, students select the homonym that correctly completes each of 20 sentences. Students may click on an "answer" button for immediate feedback. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Native Americans

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research Native Americans. Using Internet links, they examine facts about Native Americans and answer questions. Students create their own Native American Resource book. They research each region and complete graphic...
Worksheet
Curated OER

3rd grade social studies

For Teachers 3rd
In this social studies instructional activity, 3rd graders complete multiple choice questions about Native Americans, sequencing history, geography, and more. Students complete 20 questions.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Excerpt From Trail of Tears Diary" by Jobe Alexander & Mary Hill

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears.
Website
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Perspectives on the Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, student groups will design and create a poster containing facts about the Trail of Tears as well as a collage and concluding statement expressing the group's feelings about the event.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set uses documents, images, and music to reveal the story of Cherokee removal, which is part of a larger story known as the Trail of Tears. Includes teaching guide.
Lesson Plan
Volunteer Voices

Volunteer Voices: On the Trail of Tears [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, learners work with primary source documents to recapture the experience of traveling on the Trail of Tears.
Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Indian Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the "Trail of Tears"

For Students 9th - 10th
Collaborative and consensus building activity on U.S. policy and treatment of Native Americans. Lesson provides an in-depth look at government Indian removal and provides a list from which students choose and defend a Native American...
Activity
Other

Cherokee Messenger: Brief History of the Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
This website gives details about the events that led up to the displacement of the Cherokee Indians and the "Trail of Tears."
Website
Other

Trail of Tears Assoc: The Story Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the early history of Native American and European contact in America. As more settlers moved west, a law was passed to relocate the Cherokee from Arkansas. The routes they followed and the cruelties they suffered came to be known...
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Trail of Tears

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This detailed site has students recreating what the Native Americans went through during the Trail of Tears. This lesson plan allows for critical thinking, collaboration, acting/role-playing, and writing.
Handout
Tennessee History For Kids

Tennessee History for Kids: Steamboats and the Trail of Tears

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides information about the roles of steamboats and the Trail of Tears in Tennessee history.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Trail of Tears: The Indian Removals

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Cherokee were not the only Native Americans affected by the Indian Removal Policy. Read about the Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois, and the Seminole in Florida. In addition, read about the many attempts, including a law suit filed by...
Handout
Other

Collector's Guide: Indian Territory: Phoenix Rising From the Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the art forms preserved by the Native Americans who were resettled by the U.S. government in the Indian Territory.
Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
National Park Services provides an overview of the Trail of Tears, a nine state wide stretch of America the Cherokee Indians were pushed across by the Federal government in the 1830s.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Wikipedia provides a description of the Trail of Tears. Also given is some background information that led to the removal of the Cherokees from northern Georgia as well as information on the actual removal process.
Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: The Removal of the Cherokee Nation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson on U.S. white-Indian relations and domestic Removal Policy in which students read and analyze primary source material then, based on questions provided, write a narrative evaluating the events leading to the Trail of Tears.
Handout
Missouri State University

Delaware Town: Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
Read details about the history of the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Missouri, a major event in U.S. history.
Primary
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian: The Removal Act

For Students 9th - 10th
At first, the Trail of Tears only described the Cherokee removal of 1838. Later it included the removals of all southeastern Native nations. Take a close look at these primary sources from the Smithsonian which include a reproduction of...
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource provides information surrounding the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, including his successes and failures.

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