Primary Source Activities

--Student-led -- Primary source stations -- Common Core-based -- Ready to print and use -- In this station activity students will use primary sources, maps and charts, and a video to learn about four topics at four student-directed learning stations: Station 1: More cotton - Students watch a video to learn how the cotton gin caused cotton to become the preeminent crop in the antebellum South Station 2: More slaves - Students use charts and maps to evaluate how the number and value of slaves r

--Student-led -- Primary source stations -- Common Core-based -- Ready to print and use -- This student-led learning activity asks students to compile knowledge of the people that settled the West during the Manifest Destiny period, through close reading of concise primary source texts. This primary source station activity covers six groups of settlers to the American West during the 19th century: - Californios - Pioneer Women - 49ers - Mountain Men / Fur Trappers - Mormons - Chinese Immigra

--Student-led -- Primary source stations -- Common Core-based -- Ready to print and use -- This student-led station activity teaches students about Sherman's March and the concept of Total War through the use of primary source documents. Students participate in three stations. Before station 1, students read about the appointment of Ulysses Grant, and the concept of Total War. A reading is provided to introduce students to this change in leadership and strategy that occurred as the Civil War n