Introduction Lesson Plan 1: High School Lesson Plan 2: High School Lesson Plan 3: Middle School Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School Lesson Plan 1: High School Early Contacts: Native American and European Women in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries By Roberta McCutcheon This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards: Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) -- Standard 1: United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans; Standard 3: The extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800; and Standards in Historical Thinking -- Standard 3: Historical analysis and interpretation. Lesson Plan 2: High School June 25, 1876: An Interpretation of an Historical Event By Bruce Lesh This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards: Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) -- Standard 4: Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War. Lesson Plan 3: Middle School Native American Policy By Gabriela Mercado This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS NCHS National History Standards: Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Standard 1: United States territorial expansion between 1802 and 1861 and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans. Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School The Pony Express: The Fastest Delivery of a Message across America By Libby Gooch This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National Standards for History: Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) -- Standard 1: United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans.
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