Even more cool links!

In our endless quest to find amazing learning tools on the Internet, we offer more exciting links for your perusal. This video, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, animates the story of scientist Alfred Wegener, who developed a theory of continental drift. 

Students have been learning about Native sovereignty and treaty-making as part of Minnesota studies. In lieu of homework this week, 5th and 6th years have an assignment to explore how perspectives on land, relationships and power shifted between the 1700s and 1800s in the area that was to become Minnesota territory. The links below will help them with these activities (see directions in the homework folder and pdf below).

• The Ways, Video stories of Indigenous cultures around the Great Lakes: http://theways.org/
• Map of U.S. Territorial Acquisitions: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/mld/usacqup.html
• Minnesota Treaty List and Information: http://treatiesmatter.org/treaties  
• United States Territorial Expansion: http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/US09-01.html
• Northwest Ordinance, 1787: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=8
• Fort Snelling, Minnesota Historical Society: http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/history/military-history/expansionist-era
• Virtual Exhibition on Minnesota Treaties: http://treatiesmatter.org/exhibit/welcome/

Access a Google Doc of the Assignment here