Newberry: Political and Military History: Map 14: u.s. Mexican War, 1845

Betsy Ross, Toni Morrison, Sacajawea, Amelia Earhart, Maya Lin, Sally Ride, Judy Baca. No matter the subject area or the grade level you teach you will find much to value in a manual that focuses on the contributions U.S. women have...

A 48-page Student Reader focuses on the Civil War. Scholars gain information from a text that explores when, why, and where the Civil War occurred, as well as important people such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Abraham...

Lesson for K-12 using historical map teaches students about the relationship between perspectives of the world and map projections.

Develop map and directional skills as well as skills in following a series of clues to find which U.S. state Buster is in.

Students identify and collect postmarks from across the United States. They develop a list of ways to collect postmarks, display the postmarks on a large U.S. map, and find the exact location using MapQuest.

Ben's Guide is a fun way to present U.S. Government to students grades K-12. This site presents a history of Washington, D.C. Links to related sites are available.

A significant battle in the U.S.-Mexico War, National Park Services has preserved the history of Palo Alto Battlefield in Brownsville, Texas.

Lesson plans for K-12 using maps that show the distribution of wooded land in 1873. Students examine the impact of humans on the environment.

Lessons for K-12 based on a series of maps teaches students about the environmental changes resulting from mining in South Dakota, 1878.

Lessons for learners K-12 in which they study original map of Yosemite National Park, ca. 1935 and explore appropriate human uses of the environment.