Trekking
Across Our Land
This lesson describes the early migration of people from Asia to North America.
In the video program, we meet Izzy and Duncan who are each traveling
across the country by train this summer. Izzy is moving from Florida
to Seattle, making the trip with her grandmother. Duncan is traveling
with his father, who is an engineer on the railroads, on a "journey of discovery."
Choose two cities on opposite sides of the country. Use
an atlas and these Web sites to compare the distance between
the two cities by road, railroad, or "as the crow flies".
Try to figure out how long it would take and how much it would cost
to travel between the two cities by car, train, plane or bicycle!
Amtrak
MapQuest
National
Geographic Map Machine
Travelocity
To learn more about how to use maps, visit these sites:
Working
with Maps
Mapmaker, Mapmaker,
Make Me a Map
Visit these sites to learn about the Bering Land Bridge
theory, paleo-indians and the plants
and animals that lived during the
Ice Age.
Bering Land Bridge
National Park
Arctic Journey to the
Bering Land Bridge
Arctic Studies Center
Midwestern
US 16,000 Years Ago
Ancient Architects
of the Mississippi
Read some creation, migration and origin stories from
different Native American groups for another perspective.
Native American Literature
Traditional Stories,
Legends and Myths
Stories/Myths/Legends
Innu History and Culture
Menomini Oral Tradition
Choose a Native American nation and research their culture, arts,
and technology.
Then compare what you have learned with the research
other students have
completed on other Native nations.
First Nations Histories
First
Americans: Dine, Muscogee, Tlingit, Lakota, Iriquois
NativeTech (art, crafts and
technology)
Native
American Shelters
Native
American Tribal Websites
American
Indians and the Natural World
Learning
about the Bering Sea Eskimo People (lesson plan)
Crossroads
of Continents (Northern peoples)
Costanoan Ohlone Indian
Canyon Resource
The Costanoans
the Ohlone, and the Prehistory of San Francisco Bay
Hopi Culture
Navajo
Rug Design
Indian Pueblo Cultural
Center
Oneida Indian Nation
Historical Maps:
Early Indian Tribes
Maps: Windows
on Native Lands, Current Places and History
including Pre-Contact
Culture Areas, Pre-Contact
Housing Types, and Tribes of the United States and Canada
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