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		Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology ^Votes:0 Allegheny Portage Railroad: Developing Transportation Technology (The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) I magine riding on horseback or hiking through the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania in the summer of 1835. A dusty road climbs through an ever narrowing ravine. You are surrounded by steep hillsides covered with towering hemlocks, many reaching over 100 feet high. A small stream, barely four feet across, tumbles down its shallow and rocky course alongside the road. Here, high in the mountains, the air is cool, despite the season, and a feeling of wilderness pervades. As you round a bend in the road you notice the sound of heavy machinery--wheels turning, engines cranking, ropes straining. You see a cloud of dark smoke belching from an Read More Go to Site


		Attitudes about Slavery in Franklin County, Pennsylvania ^Votes:0 Attitudes about Slavery in Franklin County, Pennsylvania Students will read transcriptions of articles from two Franklin County, Pennsylvania, newspapers in order to compare the county's Republican and Democratic Parties' positions on slavery. Instructional Objectives Materials, Equipment, and Student Background Required Historical Background Procedure Follow-up, Extension, and Assessment Instructional Objectives National History Standards Standards in Historical Thinking 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation Students should be able to B. compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions by identifying likenesses and differences. D. consider multiple perspectives of various peoples in the past by demonstrating their differing motives, beli Read More Go to Site

		Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg ^Votes:0 Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg (Gettysburg National Military Park) O n July 11, 1863, Lt. John T. James of the 11th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America, sat down to write a letter to his family telling them of his experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg. He explained that on July 3 his unit had been ordered to march about one mile over open, slightly undulating farmland toward a battle-hardened Union army that was defending its own northern soil. James and his comrades believed that the fate of the Confederacy hung on their efforts. But in less than an hour, one-half of the men who marched with him became casualties. The South lost the Battle of Gettysburg and never again, in a major action, was able to fight on Union soil. James must have wondered how he Read More Go to Site

		http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/Nh119-sample.pdf ^Votes:0 PDF Document Read More Go to Site

		Immigration in Augusta and Franklin Counties ^Votes:0 Germans and Irish in Augusta and Franklin Counties Students will examine nineteenth-century newspapers, census manuscripts, and a last will and testament to explore aspects of the Irish and German immigrant communities in the 1850s and 1860s. Instructional Objectives Materials, Equipment, and Student Background Required Historical Background Procedure Follow-up, Extension, and Assessment Instructional Objectives National History Standards Standards in Historical Thinking 4: Historical Research Capabilities Students should be able to A. formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents. C. interrogate historical data by uncovering the social, political, and economic context in which it was created; testing the data source for its credibility, authority, authenticity, Read More Go to Site

		Lesson Exchange: George Washington in Pennsylvania #1 (Middle, Social Studies) ^Votes:0 TEACHERS \| ADMINISTRATORS \| GROUPS MY LINKS: chat center Chatboards Teachers Administrators Grade Level Subject Area States Tech Chatboards Projects Interest Groups Classifieds Help Wanted Books for Sale Items Wanted Teaching Supplies Teacher Created Manipulatives Educ Games Educ Software Fundraising Miscellaneous Educ Programs Distance Learning Distance Teaching Continuing Education Tutors Wanted Tutoring Services Lessons New Lessons Add a Lesson Browse Lessons Search Lessons Jobs Search Jobs Post Resume Post Job Listings Resume Search Distance Learning Mailrings Harry Wong Projects Project Switchboard Classroom Centers Professional Readings Grant Writing Fundraising Eco-Chatboard 100 Days Traveling Buddies Classroom Pets Pen Pals Post Cards Live Chat Advertising Teachers.Net Nav Chat Cen Read More Go to Site

		Railroads ^Votes:0 Railroads in Antebellum Augusta and Franklin Counties Students will read newspaper articles about trains and railroads to examine the effect that this new mode of transportation had on life in two late antebellum counties. Instructional Objectives Materials, Equipment, and Student Background Required Historical Background Procedure Follow-up, Extension, and Assessment Instructional Objectives National History Standards Standards in Historical Thinking 4: Historical Research Capabilities Students should be able to A. formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents. Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Standard 2. Students should be able to demonstrate understanding of the first era of American industrialization by analyzing how rapid industrialization, immigratio Read More Go to Site

		Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg ^Votes:0 Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg (Eisenhower National Historic Site) P erhaps a change of scene would make a difference. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, opposing leaders of the United States (U.S.) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) at the height of the Cold War in 1959, had reached an impasse. Even at the informal setting of Camp David, with occasional escapes from the intrusive protocol and ever present advisers, the leaders were making little progress in their effort to lessen the tensions. As he and Khrushchev boarded the helicopter for the short flight from Camp David to the president's Gettysburg, Pennsylvania farm, Eisenhower hoped that the quiet, rural atmosphere would have the intended effect on Khrushchev. Eisenhower always Read More Go to Site

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