Students read Diane Glancy's "Pushing the Bear" about the Cherokee Removal and respond online to a discussion board. They discuss responses in class.

Students perform research on the Web, in books and by contacting lawyers to find out what steps the court goes through to decide who gets the money. They create a chart to illustrate what laws or policies the court follows.

[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.

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.

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...

In this lesson, learners work with primary source documents to recapture the experience of traveling on the Trail of Tears.

This Teaching With Historic Places unit, designed for young scholars in grades 5-12 is about the conflict between American settlers and the Cherokee Nation. Students will outline events leading up to the forced relocation of the Cherokee...

A lesson unit that looks at the efforts of the Cherokee Nation in Georgia between 1817 and 1827 to establish their own system of governance and to keep their lands from being ceded. Even though the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in their...

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.

During this instructional activity, students will explore facts about the Cherokee people, their history, their culture, and their future. This instructional activity will help students begin to realize how the actions of our...

Lesson and resources on the history of the Cherokee Indian tribe.

In the activity, students will research, create, and present knowledge gained about Prehistoric and Historic Native Americans in Alabama. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.