Northern Lights “Cheat Sheet”
Chapter Ch. 1 What is Minnesota Ch. 2 The First Minnesotans Ch. 3 The Dakota Ch. 4 The Ojibwe Ch. 5 The Fur Trade Ch. 6 The Land Changes Hands (Treaties) Ch. 7 Minnesota’s Newcomers (Territorial Period) Ch. 8 The Civil War Ch. 9 Minnesota’s Civil War (Dakota War) Ch. 10 Sodbusters Ch. 11 Flour, Lumber, and Iron Ch. 12 Bigger, Taller, Faster Ch. 13 The Common Good (Progressive Era) Ch. 14 The Good Life Ch. 15 Boom and Bust Ch. 16 World War II Ch. 17 Cold War, Warm Kitchens Ch. 18 Taking a Stand Ch. 19 Transforming the Land Ch. 20 New Minnesotans Scope and Sequence of Chapters, Investigations, and Maps Investigation Historical Evidence Student Product What is Your Story? Household Artifacts Personal time capsule Bradbury Brook Archaeological artifacts, Artists rendering of maps, photos past People on the Move Migration artifacts, quotes Parfleche bag What my Grandmother Maud Kegg oral stories Story recalling and Taught Me telling Trading Places with a Diaries, contracts, songs, Fictional diary Voyageur letters In Their Own Words Accounts, records, images I am poem Writing Home, Writing Minnesota Missionary Ridge Untold Stories of the Dakota War Small Town Life Picturing Working Life Blueprints of our Past Why is Miss R. Sick? Capturing Leisure St. Paul’s Gangster Era Virginia Mae Hope Playing with History Singing out for Social Change The Transformation of Duluth’s Canal Park Welcome to Minnesota Diaries, books, posters, letters Painting, artifacts Personal accounts Maps, gazetteer, photos, etchings Photographs Blueprints, art, photos Cartoons, notices, death records, laws Scrapbook and diary Newspaper, police files, ransom notes Scrapbook, telegram, clothing, accounts Toys Protest song lyrics Maps, photos, postcard The historical stories in the textbook Immigration poster Map Activity Mental Map of Mn MN Rivers Dakota bands and MN Lakes Native Food Resources and Ojibwe Migration Elevation, watersheds, fur trade routes Land Cessation
Territorial boundaries and natural resources Comparison paragraph 1st Mn travels Newspaper articles Dakota battlesites and white settlement Town map and Grasshopper Plagues brochure Short story Expansion of R/R and natural resources Floor plan design Immigration patterns Public health Hinkley Fire and Cutover campaign area Personal Scrap book Telephone lines and population distribution Detective notes for 1934 Drought Precipitation trial Patterns Perform a play POW camps Make a modern toy Compose a song Walking tour or 3D model of land change Gift Basket Growth of Suburbs Indian Population Changes Environmental Dangers Modern Immigration Patterns