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Salter, Christopher L.; Hobbs, Gail L. – North Carolina Journal for the Social Studies, 1988
Examines some of the geographical elements that influenced the creation of the U.S. Constitution, such as sectionalism, the Piedmont, and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Focusing on aspects of geography that underlie the thinking, writing, and ratification of the document, the authors explore geography as environment, image-maker, and explicit…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, Human Geography
Scott, John A., Ed.; Seidman, Laurence I., Ed. – Folksong in the Classroom, 1987
Celebrating the strength of the land is the goal of this volume containing songs, bibliographies, teaching ideas, book and song reviews, and indexes for free materials. The first issue containing songs about the U.S. Constitution illuminates the vision of freedom, and the struggle for it. Visualizing the spirit of the Constitution and explaining…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Class Activities, Constitutional History
Peer reviewedStone, Kirk – Social Education, 1989
Based on an interview with U.S. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, this article surveys several of the projects launched by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution. These projects include: the National Historical Pictorial Map Contest; the Bicentennial School Recognition Program; the Bicentennial Educational Grant Program; and the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, Higher Education
Download full textPatrick, John J. – 2003
The year 2003 marks the bicentennial of the 1803 Treaty of France, by which the United States of America acquired the Louisiana Territory, an area of more than 828,000 square miles. Upon this acquisition, known as the Louisiana Purchase, the territory of the United States doubled. Historians consider the Louisiana Purchase to be a landmark event…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, History Instruction
