American History

Cooperative learning/using primary sources/critical thinking

Students will design a campaign to promote the Marshall Plan. This ad campaign can be done in the form of posters, speeches, websites, or other multi-media outlets.

Students will work collaboratively (or individually) to produce a presentation that addresses the demographics of the slave population and contributions by a freed slave from students home region

Students will learn about exodusters coming to Kansas during the reconstruction period.

Students will discover and turn in examples of bias in the news media.

To illustrate the two differing/opposite points of view on the expansion of slavery into the territory of Kansas and later the issue of slavery in the entire country.

In this activity the student will use two primary sources of a famous painting and a picture that depict what was going on in Kansas and Missouri during the border wars

To help students understand life on the Missouri/Kansas border during the "Bleeding Kansas" time period.

Students will use George Caleb Bingham's Order No. 11 painting to analyze varying viewpoints during the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict.