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The purpose of this activity is to better acquaint the student with the problems faced by Kansas settlers. Decisions made by our countries leaders have to be well thought out or they may come back to haunt us.

This is a technology based, two-day project that requires a direct instructional approach with a lecture and about a day and a half of using artifacts and primary sources to look at Missouri's involvement in the Civil War.

This lesson will allow students to participate in history within the context of an ordinary person (Margaret Hays) and then create history with the student becoming the primary source for events they are witnessing. Hopefully, the lesson will help build a connection to the past and encourage more participation in civic policy and interest in current events.

The lesson will be an individual assignment that will lead into group discussion. The lesson will be based on the reading of two primary sources (John Brown Speech to the Court and the Kansas Emigrant Song by J.G. Whittier) and completing a written document analysis worksheet on both. 

For this lesson, the student will create a mock Facebook page for a historical figure from Missouri during the Civil War time period.

Students will be looking at the executive role of President Lincoln during his terms as President. They will be grouped in pairs working through an internet site and answering questions as they go. They will look at primary sources as well as reading a

I want the students to grasp what the soldiers on both sides of the Civil War used to fight the war. As we continue on in history, we will compare these weapons to weapons used in WWI and WWII. Students will look into the technology of the war and gain an understanding of what a soldier had to use during a battle.

Students in St. Louis are not often exposed to the Border War and thus have no real background knowledge of why there is a natural rivalry between Kansans and Missourians. A lesson exploring this topic directly relates to teaching students.

Students analyze primary source documents and then write letters for and against legislation related to migrant labor.

Document analysis focused on the Holocaust and the Truman Administration