Are We There Yet?
Introducing
History to
Third Graders
by Mary L. Mann
Summer Fellowship 2006
Champaign County Historical Archives
Internet Resources Related to This Lesson:
Worksheets for analysis for written documents, photographs
and artifacts designed and developed by Education Staff, National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets
Episode Two ÒEmpire Upon the TrailsÓ from the PBS series,
The West.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/two/westwardfree.htm
Latter-Day SaintsÕ EmigrantsÕ Guide: A Table of Distances...From Council
Bluffs to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake...Remarks on the nature of the
land, timber, grass, etc.
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/TrailGuides&CISOPTR=2977
Website for many graphic organizers. For purposes of this unit, graphic
organizers were used for vocabulary, brainstorming ideas about history and
organizing information about historical evidence.