History plans Grades 6-8 Industrial Revolution through the end of the 21st century

History lesson plans Grades 6-8      Industrial Revolution through end of 21^st century including a study of Native Americans

I am currently working on a master’s degree in history.  I wanted an inexpensive program that teaches history utilizing fiction, non-fiction, and biography while exploring maps and projects.  I do recommend getting Christine Miller’s All through the Ages book.

I believe in teaching history chronologically.  I know, you’re looking at this list and going well, the first few weeks are about American Indians and Immigration in the United States.  I know but these are topics that I didn’t think we’d sufficiently covered.  I wanted my kids to have a good overview of different regions of American Indians and also some important treaties, leaders, and wars.  Immigration plays a very important role in the latter half of the 19^th century and early 20^th century so I included a separate study here.

**My goal is to develop a plan that is inexpensive and utilizing books, lapbooks, notebooking pages, etc that I already have or can purchase inexpensively.  Any books can be substituted out here.  I just list the ones we have for my own records; it doesn’t actually mean that we will use them or even all of them.  Use books from your own shelves or go to the library.  I love history but there are so many books out there that it would be difficult and expensive to have an extensive library at home. 

Week one through week three-Native Americans

This is an overview of the Native American tribes within the United States.  The Northeast, Southeast, Great Plains, Northwest, and Southwest Indians are discussed.

Books used:                       North American Indian Stories by Gretchen Will Mayo

                                                Southwest Indians by Mir Tamin Ansary

                                                …if you Lived with the Sioux Indians by Ann McGovern

                                                …if you Lived with the Cherokee by Peter and Connie Roop

                                                …if you Lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine

                                                The Encyclopedia of Native America by Trudy Griffin-Pierce

** I know the If You Lived Series is geared towards younger children but they do have wonderful information for research

See the attached lesson plan called Native Americans grades 6-8

Week four-Immigration

Books used:                       Immigration by Peter Benoit (Scholastic-Cornerstones of Freedom)

Week five-Industrialization Revolution

Week six-Industrial Revolution

Week seven-Topics covered:  Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, US President McKinley assassinated, Wright Brothers, Panama Canal, San Francisco Earthquake, Triple Entente

Week eight-Balkan Wars, Russia: October Revolution and Tsar Nicholas II,

Week nine-WWI

Week ten-WWI

Week eleven-WWI

Week Twelve-WWI ends and League of Nations formed

Week Thirteen-US Prohibition, Palestine, Europe: Mussolini, Soviet Union established, West Germany occupation, Stalin rises to power

Week Fourteen-Charles Lindbergh, US stock market crash triggers Great Depression, Pluto discovered

Week Fifteen-Great Depression

Week Sixteen-1920s survey of music, crime….leading up to Al Capone’s imprisonment

Week Seventeen-FDR New Deal, Europe, Hoover Dam

Week Eighteen-Hindenburg, War of the Worlds, WWII begins

Week Nineteen-WWII

Week Twenty-WWII

Week Twenty-one-WWII

Week Twenty-two WWII

Week Twenty-three-US Marshall Plan, NATO, Israel, Germany and Korea

Week Twenty-four-Cold War begins, Korean War

Week Twenty-five-Korean War

Week Twenty-six-Elizabeth II, climbing Mt. Everest, US: Segregation ruled illegal

Week Twenty-seven-Rosa Parks, Warsaw Pact, US Civil Rights struggle in South, US and Russia launch satellites into orbit

Week Twenty-eight-US: Alaska and Hawaii introduced as states, Fidel Castro established as dictator in Cuba, Berlin War, Bay of Pigs

Week Twenty-nine-Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK assassinated, MLK: I have a dream speech, South Vietnamese government overthrown by coup

Week Thirty-Vietnam War

Week Thirty-one-Vietnam War

Week Thirty-two-MLK and Robert Kennedy assassinated, Northern Ireland tensions, space race

Week Thirty-three-space race, Roe v. Wade, Watergate Scandal, St Helens erupts

Week Thirty-four-Space Shuttle’s first flight, Gandhi assassinated, Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

Week Thirty-five-Challenger blows up, Mir Space Station, Chernobyl explodes, Berlin Wall comes down

Week Thirty-six-Persian Gulf War, Waco Texas

Week Thirty-seven-World Trade Center explodes, Mandela elected president to South Africa, Rwanda

Week Thirty-EU formed, 9/11, tensions in gulf

For a printable version of this go here.

Weeks one through three: Native Americans

Native Americans Grades 6-8

This is an overview of the Native American tribes within the United States.  The Northeast, Southeast, Great Plains, Northwest, and Southwest Indians are discussed.

Books used:                       North American Indian Stories by Gretchen Will Mayo

                                                Southwest Indians by Mir Tamin Ansary

                                                …if you Lived with the Sioux Indians by Ann McGovern

                                                …if you Lived with the Cherokee by Peter and Connie Roop

                                                …if you Lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine

                                                The Encyclopedia of Native America by Trudy Griffin-Pierce

** I know the If You Lived Series is geared towards younger children but they do have wonderful information for research

Week one

Vocabulary terms:  treaty, compromise, wampum, clan, surrender, reservation, warrior, squaw

Study the Northeast, and Southeast Indians in detail.  Make notebooking pages or lapbooks answering the following questions:

            What were their traditional dwellings?

            What were their family/clan relationships like?

            What were their clothes like?

            What did they generally eat?

            What were their customs in warfare?

            Name five different tribes that is located in this region

If you have the Enclopedia of Native America read the following:

            Northeast: pages 27-32

            Southeast: pages 49, 55-59

There is a Iroquois lapbook here:  http://www.tinasdynamichomeschoolplus.com/exploring-to-revolution/iroquois-lapbook/

Read aloud: North American Indian Stories

Activities:        Plan a Native American meal

                        Make a cornhusk doll

                        Design a village for the Northeast or Southeast Indians

                       

Week two

Read Aloud:  Soft Rain

Watch:  Dances with Wolves

Study in detail: Plains, Northwest, and Southwest Indians.  Make notebooking pages or lapbooks with details such as

            What were their traditional dwellings?

            What were their family/clan relationships like?

            What were their clothes like?

            What did they generally eat?

            What were their customs in warfare?

            Name five different tribes that is located in this region

Activities:        Make a dreamcatcher

                        Make a diorama of an indian village from one of these regions

                        Make a todem pole

There is a lapbook here for the Plains Indians:   http://www.tinasdynamichomeschoolplus.com/exploring-to-revolution/plains-indians/

Week three:

Project week!

1. Pick two of the following people and design a notebooking page or poster with information about their lives such as when/where they were born and died, what tribe they were with, what interesting thing they did in history, and any other facts that you find interesting.

                        Tecumseh

                        Crazy Horse

                        Red Cloud

                        Red Eagle

                        Powhatan

                        Pocahontas

                        Squanto

                        Sitting Bull

2.  Pick two of the following wars and write short reports regarding the details of the war, who is was between, the years, the outcome, any treaties that were made as a result, and what eventually happened to the treaty.

           

                        Wounded Knee

                        Red River War

                        US Dakota War

                        Ute War

                        Little Big Horn

Watch:  History Channel Code Talkers

*****When doing research online, DO NOT use Wikipedia.  It is a bad habit to get into. Anyone at any time can go in and change any information that they want on this website.  Colleges generally do not allow usage of this website so do not start using it.  Use websites that are .edu or .gov; .com websites are generally not sourced and not confirmed.  Always be sure to be watching your child while on the internet to ensure that they are not connected to a website that is questionable.

                       

 For a printable version of this Native American study, go here.

Week four-Immigration

IMMIGRATION

Day one

Read Immigration by Peter Benoit (Scholastic-Cornerstones of Freedom) pages 6-19

Day two

Read Immigration pages 21-43

Read about the first person to arrive at Ellis Island  http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/Annie_Moore.asp

Day three

Read Immigration pages 45-49

Interactive Tour of Ellis Island   http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

Day four

Look at immigration data:  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/

Watch the virtual field trip of Ellis Island   http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/webcast.htm

Notes from the reading and study guide for quiz:

1.       What did U.S. President John F. Kennedy call the United States? ____________________________________________

2.       Define immigrants: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.       Define indentured servant: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.       What were some of the reasons that people immigrated to the United States?

a.       _________________________________________________________

b.      _________________________________________________________

c.       _________________________________________________________

5.       Define ethnic enclave:

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6.       Define refugee: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7.       Which continent has the greatest number of immigrants to the US? ______________________

8.       Why do you think that nation has the largest number of immigrants? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9.       Which decade in the 1900s had the most immigrants? _________________________________

10.   Why do you think that is? ________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________

11.   Why do you think that there was such a decline in immigration during the 1930s and 1940s? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12.   Where is Ellis Island located? ______________________________________________________

13.   What was the purpose of Ellis Island? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14.   What years did Ellis Island operate? ________________________________________________

15.   How many immigrants were processed during those years? ____________________________

16.   The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States in _________________ by _____________.

17.   Engraved in the base of the statue are lines from Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus” which reads:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

18.   Who was the first person to arrive on Ellis Island?  How old was he/she and where were they from?  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

19.   What did that person receive when they arrived on Ellis Island? _________________________

20.   In what year was Ellis Island opened as a park? _______________________________________

 For a printable version of week four immigration, go here.