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Ms. Information Games - Lewis and Clark

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Title:

Ms. Information Games - Lewis and Clark

URL:

https://mrnussbaum.com/ms-information-games-lewis-and-clark

Content Source:

Other
Mr. Nussbaum

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

In this interactive online game, Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the Missouri River to change the story of the events in the Lewis and Clark expedition. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!

Content Standard(s):

Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 5
United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

10 ) Describe political, social, and economic events between 1803 and 1860 that led to the expansion of the territory of the United States, including the War of 1812, the Indian Removal Act, the Texas-Mexican War, the Mexican-American War, and the Gold Rush of 1849.

• Analyzing the role of the Louisiana Purchase and explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark for their impact on Westward Expansion

• Explaining the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine

• Identifying Alabama's role in the expansion movement in the United States, including the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Trail of Tears (Alabama)

• Identifying the impact of technological developments on United States' expansion

Examples: steamboat, steam locomotive, telegraph, barbed wire

Unpacked Content

Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government

Course Title: United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Analyze and describe the political, social, and economic events led to the expansion of the United States and contributed to the development of new technologies and the creation of new states.
Explain how these changes also set the stage for future conflict within the nation.

Teacher Vocabulary:

political
expansion
Indian Removal Act
Texas-Mexican War
Mexican-American War
Gold Rush
technological developments
locomotive
telegraph
barbed wire

Knowledge:

Students know:

Political, social, and economic events between 1803 and 1860 that led to the expansion of the territory of the United States (the War of 1812, the Indian Removal Act, the Texas-Mexican War, the Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush of 1849, among others).
The role of the Louisiana Purchase and explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark for their impact on Westward Expansion.
The purpose of the Monroe Doctrine.
Alabama's role in the expansion movement in the United States, (the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Trail of Tears, among others).
The impact of technological developments on United States' expansion (steamboat, steam locomotive, telegraph, barbed wire, among others).

Skills:

Students are able to:

Locate journeys, territories, and political boundaries on a physical and political maps.
Sequence historical events.
Explain the role of individuals in historical time periods.
Compare and contrast technological.
Determine causes and effects of events and technological developments between 1803-1860.
Analyze primary sources.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Political, social, and economic events led to the expansion of the United States and contributed to the development of new technologies and the creation of new states while also setting the stage for future conflict within the nation.

Alabama Archives Resources:

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Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.5.10- Recognize reasons people would move from their homes to new land in the west and the impact westward expansion had on American Indians; identify at least one or more people, movements, and events involved in America's early westward expansion, including Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, the Indian Removal Act, and the gold rush; identify the inventions that aided westward expansion, including the railroad and the steamboat; illustrate the completion of the contiguous United States on a map.

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Ginger Boyd

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Ms. Information Games - Lewis and Clark