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Here are some proven lesson plans on the life and times of General Houston. Click on the links to access them, and please send us your most successful lesson plans so that we can make them available to other teachers who would like to use them. Send them to: teachers@samhoustonmovie.com
Games and Worksheets
Here are some games and Worksheets. Click on the links to access them.
Classroom Resources and Teacher Aides
- TEKS and Curriculum Alignment Tools & Lesson Plan Database
Texas State Historical Association tools for 4th and 7th grade teachers
http://www.tshaonline.org/tools/index.html
- Historical Maps of Texas
Perry-Castaneda Library, The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_texas.html
- Historical Maps of Tennessee
Perry-Castañeda Library, The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/tennessee.html
- Texas Historic Sites Atlas
Searchable atlas of nearly 300,000 historic sites and markers in Texas. Includes museums, sawmills, courthouses, battlefields, etc.
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us
- East Texas Digital Archives and Collections
Digital copies of photographs, documents, maps, books and other archival materials associated with the East Texas geographical region from the Gulf of Mexico north to the Red River and east of the Trinity River to Western Louisiana, which was once part of Texas. The digitized material is freely available to students, teachers and the general public for their historical and genealogical research.
http://digital.sfasu.edu/cdm
- Tennessee History for Kids
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org
- Texas Almanac
A wealth of information about all-things Texan.
Published by the Texas State Historical Commission
http://www.texasalmanac.com
- Texas History Primary Source Documents
Selected Texas History Primary Source Documents
http://www.tshaonline.com/lshl/texhisdocs.html
- The Texas Papers -From Independence to Annexation
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/texmenu.htm
- Sam Houston's Account of the Battle of San Jacinto
Original image and transcription of Houston's April 23, 1836 letter to Burnet
http://www.dallashistory.org/history/texas/houston_report.htm
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; February 2, 1848
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Treaty ending the U.S./Mexican War and the purchase by the U.S. of Mexican lands extending to the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/mexico/guadhida.htm
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act; May 30, 1854
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Houston filibustered the Kansas-Nebraska Bill for two days in the U.S. Senate. Most historians now believe the Civil War was inevitable after its passage.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm
- Portraits of Texas Governors
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors
- The Texas Constitution
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/txconst/toc.html
- Texas Legislature Online
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
- Cities of Texas Websites
http://www.state.tx.us/portal/tol/en/gov/6/1/1
- Texas Treasures
An online exhibit of historical artifacts and documents by the Texas State Libraries and Archives.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures
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