Agenda:
1. Push/Pull Factors (pg 4)
2. animatedatlas.com presentation
3. Territorial Expansion Map (pg 3)
HW: Finish map
Today in Team Yukon history, we began by discussing where we had come from as a nation. We began with just the land of the 13 original colonies, but by 1783 had quickly expanded west to the Mississippi River. Later, with the Louisiana Purchase, the Texas annexation, the Mexican War, and a few other treaties and purchases, by 1853, the continental United States was complete.
We looked at the mean center of population for the US, and saw how that center point has shifted west and south since our nation's first census in 1790.
Today's in-class assignment was the Territorial Expansion Map. The homework was to finish the map. Make sure to follow all instructions, especially when drawing and labeling the rivers. To help you with the rivers, check out these sites:
http://graphicmaps.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/artwork/rivers/uslayout.htm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/rivers/
A really cool downloadable, printable map of Westward Expansion is available here:
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/territory/pagetacq3.pdf
If you want to show your parents some of what we did in class today, you can check out the Animated Atlas at:
http://animatedatlas.com/movie2.html
Happy Learning!
RVI
2 comments:
i really like this idea. i find it very helpful. none of my teachers have ever done this. so thank you
Glad you enjoy it, ryegirl. If there is anything you can think of to make the blog more useful, please let me know.
RVI
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