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November 23, 2008

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
This lesson discusses the differences between common representations of Native Americans within the U.S. and a more differentiated view of historical and contemporary cultures of five American Indian tribes living in different geographical areas. Students will learn about customs and traditions such as housing, agriculture, and ceremonial dress for the Tlingit, Dinè, Lakota, Muscogee, and Iroquois peoples.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Not "Indians," Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
Students study the interaction between environment and culture as they learn about three vastly different Native groups in a game-like activity that uses vintage photographs, traditional stories, photos of artifacts, and recipes.

Student Resource / History & Social Studies
Launchpad: Colonial New England
Read the following background about the development of English towns and their expansion in Massachusetts in the seventeenth-century.

November 23, 1863

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 2: The Battles of the Civil War
Through the use of maps and original documents, this lesson will focus on the key battles of the Civil War, Gettysburg and Vicksburg and show how the battles contributed to its outcome. It will also examine the "total war" strategy of General Sherman, and the role of naval warfare in bringing about a Union victory.

Student Resource / History & Social Studies
Battles of the Civil War: campaigns map
A comprehensive animated map showing the locations and travel routes of the major Civil War military campaigns.