Maps and Globes
This map feature helps you understand what different symbols on a map mean.
What is a map key?
Having this in the lesson plan verifies the teacher is teaching Texas' standards for what students should be able to know and do.
What are TEKS?
These first 10 amendments are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This holiday commemorates the victory of the Mexican army over the French forces of Napoleon III on May 5, 1862.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
This type of resource is an original document or firsthand account of an event.
What is a primary resource?
A compass rose helps identify these.
What are North, South, East, and West?
This strategy helps students apply new skills by engaging them in structured practice before independent work.
What is guided practice / collaborative practice?
This battle is known as the most disastrous episode of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
The Texas state curriculum officially introduces children to U.S. History in this grade level.
What is fifth grade?
A biography of a historical figure is this type of resource.
What is a secondary resource?
A globe shows sizes and shapes more accurately than this.
What is a Mercator projection map?
This element of direct instruction capture's students attention and settles them to work.
What is focus?
This feature of the U.S. Constitution was designed so that no single branch of government - executive, judicial, or legislative - could exert full control over the other two.
What is checks and balances?
This primary source document, signed on July 4, 1776, declared the 13 American Colonies independent from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?.
It is important to teach this to students because secondary resources sometimes reflect the author's perspective or interpretation?
What is bias?
This map feature is most useful to find a city's exact location on a map.
What is a grid system with longitude and latitude?
During this phase of direct instruction, the teacher models the skill or concept students will be learning.
What is presentation?
This economic theory states that prices vary based on the balance between the availability of a product or service at a certain price and the desire of potential purchasers to pay that price.
What is the law of supply and demand?
In Texas, the course that focuses on human or cultural geography is introduced in this grade.
What is the Sixth grade?
A diary entry from a soldier during the American Revolution is an example of this.
What is a primary resource?
Students need a clear understanding of this to apply the concept of time zones.
What is the concept of the meridians of longitude?
To assess student understanding, teachers use this step to check for comprehension before moving forward.
What is formative assessment?
This 19th century belief held that the United States was destined by God, to expand its dominion across America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The period in the United States during which enslaved people were freed and the country tried to rebuild itself
What is Reconstruction?
This website is a reliable source of primary source documents.
What is the Library of Congress?