This page will have materials for United States Geography and History classes.
Here is a sample, about the amount of work needed
to grow corn and cotton before the Civil War:
Frostfree Season and Corn vs. Cotton labor requirements
This is a sample activity from Teaching Geography
(Guilford Press, 3rd ed., 2014; www.guilford.com)
Here is a package that has multiple uses:
as an introduction to American environments,
as an investigation of environmental quality
on Native American reservations
and as a review of latitude/longitude
- US1 Native Americans Map Set maps of reservations and environments
- US1 Native Americans Data Sheet to tabulate data from the maps
- US1 Native American Nations c 1650 a draft map of a very fluid geography
Here is a simulation of a locational decision – where to locate our settlement?
- US2 Conditions and Connections presentation to lead the simulation
- US2 Conditions and Connections activity background and basic workmap
- US2 Conditions and Connections clickable map customize your own map
Here is a package about the Great Compromise on the location of the national capital
- Locating the Capital activity set individuals or groups can do dfferent pages
- Locating the Capital 2 – Presentation
- Locating the Capital 5 – Visuals
- Locating the Capital 6 – AnswerKey
- US in Late 1700s clickable miniAtlas separate maps of colonial products
Here is a package about moving from the eastern forest to the mid-continent grassland
(moving into an environment where very few “log-cabin culture” ideas are appropriate)
- US3 Lewis Clark Environment presentation
- US3 Lewis Clark activity set includes primary documents about the journey
- US3 Lewis Clark map set
- US5 Culture of Pioneer presentation
- US5 Whats In Your Wagon activity set
Here is an early draft of a clickable mini-Atlas – comments welcome!
See also the North America presentations under Big Idea Geography