This US History GeoInquiry is designed to enhance teaching the "13 Colonies during the 1700s" in US History classes. The activity uses a web-based map and is tied to the C3 Framework.
Explore the geographic similarities and differences of the locations of the early river valley civilizations.
Explore the Silk Roads transfer of goods ideas and disease yesterday and today.
Students learn about the first shots of the American Revolution and the battles that occurred before the Declaration of Independence.
Examine Viking Magyar and Islamic invasions and their impact on the development of Europe.
The War of 1812 ensured the United States’ independence and created opportunities for two future U.S. presidents to demonstrate their leadership qualities.
Measure the distance between two rain gauges to estimate how much precipitation an intervening town receives by deriving a linear function.
Learn the causes and chronology of the Crusades between 1095 and 1204.
During the mid-1800s the American population followed the country’s Manifest Destiny; as land was acquired westward migration toward the Pacific occurred.
Explore the diffusion of the Black Plague through the Silk Road trade routes.
This activity explores the network of places and routes that made up the Underground Railroad.
This activity provides a geographic overview of the American Civil War.
Discover when and how Russia acquired territory between 1553 and 1914 to become the largest country in the world.
Compare and contrast Spain’s and Portugal’s early sea explorations to reach Asia.
Explore the spatial patterns of Native American lands in 1819 and the decrease in size of those lands through the current Native American reservations.
Steel and the birth of a city (natural resources) US History GeoInquiry
Explore the effects of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Discover the first Industrial Revolution - birth and diffusion from 1750 to 1881.
Students will learn about the key fronts of World War I and the impact of the United States’ involvement.
The lesson uses the Russian Revolution as a point of entry for introducing students to the idea of historiography, that history is interpreted and those interpretations vary over time.