Westward Expansion Stations, Annotated Timeline,Graphic Organizer & Map Activity

Now can be used with interactive Google Map! This is a comprehensive mini-bundle with tons of options to fit your personal style and class level.

Teachers can choose from two printable student-centered instructional choices: an annotated timeline or stations. Students fill out a graphic organizer and complete a map activity with either option. The information covered includes:

the Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase, Oregon Country, Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, Spanish Cession, and the Land Above the Louisiana Purchase.

At the end of the activity, a further Common Core writing option is for students to create a paragraph by organizing the information in a Manifest Destiny Pre-Write. The thesis statement is provided for them and the template has places to cite their evidence from the notes.

This 17-page activity includes:

▶️ A three-page annotated timeline informational text source

▶️ A cloze note graphic organizer that has students fill-in-blanks and shade in a map of each territory acquired

▶️ 8 reading stations broken up by territory

▶️ A stations one-page graphic organizer

▶️ A writing guide for a pre-formatted Westward Expansion paragraph

▶️ An interactive Google map with the same information as the timeline and stations!

Check out this FREE Western Expansion Map that goes perfectly with the graphic organizers in this resource bundle. It's outstanding for a Google Classroom or a distance learning classroom.

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***SAVE BIG! You can buy a bundle of Common Core resources including this product at Westward Expansion Notes, Activity and Resource Bundle. These resources are versatile and Common Core!***

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Instructomania US History lessons are taught with a common theme by using key concepts in each unit. Through a key concept lens, students analyze the growth and struggles behind the early American growing nation. The key concepts embedded in our US history activities and worksheets included are geographical expansion and political, economic, and social development. The following key-concept subcategories are the focus in each unit:

• Federalism (political development)
• Republicanism (political development)
• Government (political development)
• Diversity (social development)
• Territorial Expansion (geographic expansion)
• Rights and liberties (political and social development)
• Labor Systems (economic development)
• Differing Economies (economic development)

Through the United States history bundles, students support key concept-based claims with evidence from both secondary and primary source texts.

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❤️❤️❤️About Mr. and Mrs. P, the teachers behind Instructomania:

We are a Middle School teacher duo with over 40 years of experience in the Middle School classroom! We strive to create history and science lesson plans that inspire teachers and engage students, focusing on history activities for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Our United States History curricula includes no prep worksheets and Common Core lessons that have been tested and polished in the classroom. U.S. history activities are created with visually rich graphic organizer worksheets and fun thematic assignments. We hope you and your students love our products as much as we did making and using them in our Middle School classes!

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