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National Geographic News
Day 1 Timezones Lesson
Education.com
Lesson Plan
http://www.education.com/activity/article/time-zones/
Day 2 Rocky Mountains and Continental Divide
http://www.springsgov.com/SectionIndex.aspx?SectionID=18
http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-209495/United-States
http://www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/wildlife_view.htm
http://pikespeak.us.com/Learn/mountain-management.html
http://parks.coloradosprings.gov/cat/explore-play/attractions/pikes-peak-americas-mountain
Day 3 Coastal Geography Lesson
Article
Lesson in Map Reading in the 4th Grade
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221341708984054?journalCode=rjog20#.VRihgmpFD7Y
http://video.nationalgeographic.co
m/video/101-videos/earthquake-101
Day 4 The Native Americans of the West
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stories/0701_0143.html
Day 5 Exploring Lewis and Clark
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/lewis_clark/index.htm
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Day 6 California Gold Rush
http://www.csun.edu/~sg4002/courses/417/readings/gold_rush.pdf
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/goldrush.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/timeline/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh//amex/kids/goldrush/features.html
Day 7 Technology
jeopardylabs.com
http://ponyexpress.org/history/
http://www.telegraph-history.org/
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/telegraph.htm
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/images/history/chappe.html
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtk187/art2/telegraph.htm
http://www.chromebattery.com/battery-kids/projects/build-your-own-telegraph
http://www.education.com/activity/article/Morse_Code/
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad
http://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=%22union+pacific%22&st=gallery
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamengine.htm
http://www.whenwasitinvented.org/when-was-the-first-train-invented/
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=27328&CategoryID=8668
Day 8 Hawaii and Alaska
http://iijuan12.hubpages.com/hub/alaska-and-hawaii-lesson
http://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/fifty1.html
http://npaphistory.wikispaces.com/Alaska+and+Hawaii+become+states+%281959%29+group3
http://www.hbavenues.com/bookfinder/pdf/LBTG/ave_lbtg_gr_4_6_01.pdf
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/usa-states/hawaii/facts/
http://www.gohawaii.com/en/statewide/discover/essential-hawaii/hula-of-hawaii/
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/50sq/2008/hi.cfm
and
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/50sq/2008/ak.cfm
http://alaska.gov/kids/
http://www.timeforkids.com/destination/alaska
and
http://www.timeforkids.com/destination/hawaii
Day 9 The West and its' Abundance of Natural Resources
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g4n_u5/#
Day 10 Public Lands and Yellowstone National Park
http://pu
bliclands.org
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.htm
Assessment Materials
Day 3 -
Coastal
Geography Exit Slip
"If you lived on the West Coast, how could your life be affected by earthquakes and volcanoes?"
Day 6 - Gold Rush Rubric