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Showing 946 results for Trade history ...
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The students will review articles and internet sites pulling important information pertaining to the Southern Campaign, concentrating on the areas in South Carolina. They will then create a set of trading cards to be used as a class set.
Trade Goods
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Trading was a very important part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In this lesson plan students will engage in trading for supplies with other students and learn what the expedition used for trading and traded for.
Travel or Trade?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
People of the Hopewell culture are known for building gigantic geometric earthworks. They also created spiritually charged artwork out of beautiful exotic materials sourced from all over the North American continent. How did these materials get to South-Central Ohio? Gather your students and plenty of supplies into your canoe and let’s explore the fascinating answer!
Trade: How much is that?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
At the end of this activity, the student will be able to: - describe conflicts between the Native Americans and Europeans over unfair trade practices. -summarize the relationship among Native Americans and Europeans in reference to the conduct of trade.
Trading Post Labor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail produced a collection of observations that include the multicultural nature of labor in the southwestern borderlands in the 1840s. This lesson offers an opportunity to analyze the Bent, St. Vrain, & Company's dependence on skilled labor from various classes, ethnicities, and national origins.
Trading to Survive at Tuzigoot
Economy and Trade: Pre 1845
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.
Fort Union Society and Trading
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Daily life at Fort Union Trading Post reflected the social and economic relationship between and within American Indian and European cultures associated with the 19th century fur-trading empire. This teacher resource document provides a unique look into Fort Union's inhabitants and social hierarchy.
Fort Union Fur Trade Overview
Fort Union Fur Trade Overview
- Type: Online Galleries
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Collect stories about the Civil War and civil rights! The National Park Service is offering more than 500 trading cards to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Through the Oneida Carrying Place: Travel, Trade, and Conflict
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How did European/Native contact on the New York frontier influence the development of early America? When this virtual tour is complete, students will have a brief overview of European/Native relations in early American history. Including how trade, war, and politics on the New York frontier affected both sides.
Chouteau Trade/Osage Nation 3rd & 4th Grade
Chouteau Trade/Osage Nation 5th & 6th Grade
Chouteau Trade/Osage Nation 7th & 8th Grade
Why Visit His Home?
History on Trial
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
History Hunters
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity trunk is designed to introduce learners to the ways that historians, archeologists, and anthropologists use primary resources to learn about the past. Students will role-play by wearing costumes identifying each as an anthropologist, archeologist, or historian.