MS5+Activities+and+Resources

Activities Literacy First strategies: Word Splash, KWL chart, Teacher model of cause and effect (of an event in history) Group discussion/creation of Kansas state Constitution Group presentation to 8th grade "Congress" Research of free state or proslavery person, pro and anti slavery groups.

Resources websites (see questions and answers) Joy Hakim books Books and resources gathered from NEH seminar about Bleeding Kansas and Border Wars copies of Iowa state and Missouri state Constitutions and US Constitution Video of Congressional meetings