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The Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
helps students realize the role canals played in western expansion and in the evolution of transportation by focusing on the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Students can... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Map Collections: 1544-1996
offers thousands of digitized online maps. The collections are broken into seven categories, cities and towns, conservation and environment, discovery and exploration, immigration and... (Library of Congress) |
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The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio
tells how the construction of this canal transformed one of the poorest states in the Union in the 1820s into the third most prosperous by 1840. The 308-mile canal helped open New... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Zoom into Maps
offers hundreds of historical maps -- maps showing European exploration of the Americas; migration, population, and economic activity; the growth of roads, railways, canals, river... (Library of Congress) |
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America on the Move
tells how transportation changed America. A classroom activity guide looks at foods and families on the move (1880s), workers and products (1920s), early highways (1930-40s), suburban... (Smithsonian Institution) |
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Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
offers lesson plans built around historically important maps on 18 topics: Columbus's world (1482), an Indian map of the Southeast (1721), Captain Cook and Hawaii (1778), "Nouvelle... (Newberry Library, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Junior Solar Sprint and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Competitions
focuses on designing and building solar and hydrogen fuel cell cars. Explore components of solar cars. Conduct experiments to improve car performance. Find activities for measuring... (Department of Energy) |
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TeachingHistory.org
provides lessons, teaching guides, best practices, and other resources for teaching history. See videos on "what is historical thinking," teaching history in elementary school, and... (TeachingHistory.org, supported by Department of Education) |
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Historians on America
looks at 11 developments that altered the course of U.S. history: the trial of John Peter Zenger and the birth of freedom of the press, the Constitutional Convention (1787), George... (Department of State) |
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Glorieta and Raton Passes: Gateways to the Southwest
examines the role of these two passes in ensuring that the Southwest would become and remain part of the U.S. Learn about traders and armies that depended on the passes, which were... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Binding the Nation
examines the history of mail service in America from colonial times through the 19th century. Learn why people thought the system was needed (to ensure the free flow of information... (Smithsonian Institution) |
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Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
is the companion website for a film that features a community of Pacific Islanders as they build sailing canoes and follow the stars on a 2,000-mile voyage across the ocean in the wake... (PBS Online, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Traveling the National Road
tells the story of the first road built with federal funds. Construction of the 632-mile road from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois, began in 1811. The aim was to improve... (National Park Service) |
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Wheat Farms, Flour Mills, and Railroads: A Web of Interdependence
examines those three industries as they evolved together in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and North Dakota during the late 1800s. The three depended on each other for success and... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Railroad Maps of North America
offers progress report surveys for individual railroad lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by... (Library of Congress) |
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Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
makes available for viewing the nearly nine hundred images of modes of transportation taken by American photographer William Henry Jackson in North Africa, Asia, Australia, and... (Library of Congress) |
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Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
features 46 historic places along a 150-mile stretch from Bristol to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the anthracite coal industry. This National Register of Historic... (National Park Service) |
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Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology
shows the innovative transportation system used in the 1820s-1840s to tow railroad cars up and down the steep slopes of the Allegheny Mountains... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Chattanooga, Tennessee: Train Town
helps students see how geography and promotion combined to encourage the growth of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and how railroads shaped the organization and architecture of this and other... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Anti-Railroad Propaganda Poster: The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860
uses a poster decrying the disruptive influence of railroads on local culture to launch a discussion on local differences and their effect on American politics. Explanatory text... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Roadside Attractions
is a lesson in which students examine five examples of roadside architecture built in the 1920s and 30s to catch the eye of passing motorists. They include the Teapot Dome Service... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal
is a lesson plan that draws on photos, texts, and other sources to help students learn about the Erie Canal and its impact on the economic and social growth of New York and the nation... (Library of Congress) |
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What Exit? New Jersey and Its Turnpike
tells the story of the most heavily traveled toll road in the nation -- how it was built, what it meant in its time, and how people have given it life. Built in two years in the... (New Jersey Historical Society, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor
is a travel itinerary of 50 houses, farms, churches, historic districts, and other sites. Learn about the first organized American settlement in the Northwest Territory (1772) and the... (National Park Service) |
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Going-to-the-Sun Road: A Model of Landscape Engineering
was the first highway by which visitors could see the lakes, glaciers, alpine peaks, and meadows of Glacier National Park. Work on the 50-mile route, which connected the east and west... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Ships and Piers, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
presents photos and stories of several of the park's collection of 100 of schooners, ferryboats, tugs, and other traditional and significant small boats... (National Park Service) |
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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site's Learning Page
examines the people and construction of Bent's Fort, and the Santa Fe Trail. Built originally in 1833, this adobe fort became a center of trade with Indians and trappers. For much of... (National Park Service) |
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