Lesson Plans and Activities

Pre - 1500

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• Activities: Pre-1500: A Geologic Sense of Time - Grade Level [8-12]
• Activities: Pre-1500: Ashfall - Grade Level [4-8]
• Activities: Pre-1500: First Human Residents - Grade Level [8-12]
• Activities: Pre-1500: Nebraska's First Farmers - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: Pre-1500: Lime Creek Site: A Glimpse of Early Native Americans - Grade Level [4-8]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: Pre-1500: Schultz Site: Beginnings of Pottery in Nebraska - Grade Level [4-8]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: Pre-1500: Arner Site: Out on the Prairies of Western Nebraska - Grade Level [4-8]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: Pre-1500: Patterson Site: Prehistoric Farm Families in Nebraska - Grade Level [4-8]



1500 - 1799

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• Activities: 1500-1799: Emergence of Historic Tribes - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1500-1799: First Contact: Expanding Trade - Grade Level [8-12]



1800 - 1849

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• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1800-1849: The Louisiana Purchase - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1800-1849: Fur Traders and Missionaries [8-12]
• Activities: 1800-1849: Forts Built - Grade Level [8-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1800-1849: Routes West - Grade Level [8-12]



1850 - 1874

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• Activities: 1850-1874: The Kansas Nebraska Act - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1850-1874: Native Americans and Settlers - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1850-1874: African American Settlers - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plans & Activities: 1850-1874: Homestead Act Signed: The Challenges Of The Plains - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plans & Activities: 1850-1874: Homestead Act Signed: Who were the Settlers? - Grade Level [3-12]
• Lesson Plans: 1850-1874: Beef Moves to Nebraska - Grade Level [4-8]
• Lesson Plans & Activities: 1850-1874: Railroads & Settlement - Grade Level [3-12]
• Lesson Plan: 1850-1874: Notable Nebraskan: J. Sterling Morton - Grade Level [4]



1875 - 1899

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• Activities: 1875-1899: Trial of Standing Bear - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plans: 1875-1899: The Dawes Act - Grade Level [8-12]
• Lesson Plans: 1875-1899: Notable Nebraskan: Susan LaFlesche Picotte - Grade Level [4]
• Lesson Plans: 1875-1899: High Falutin' Beef - Grade Level [8-12]
• Activities: 1875-1899: Roots of Progressivism - Grade Level [8-12]
• Activity: 1875-1899: Solomon Butcher Photographs, The Sod House Frontier - Grade Level [8]



1900 - 1924

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• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1900-1924: Progressing into the 20th Century - Grade Level [8-12]
• Lesson Plans: 1900-1924: Reforming Beef - Grade Level [8-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1900-1924: Votes for Women - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plan: 1900-1924: Notable Nebraskan Father Flanagan - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1900-1924: Prohibition of Alcohol - Grade Level [8-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1900-1924: Racial Tensions - Grade Level [8-12]
• Activities: 1900-1924: Native American Citizenship - Grade Level [4-12]



1925 - 1949

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• Lesson Plan: 1925-1949: Notable Nebraskans - Grade Level [4]
• Lesson Plan: 1925-1949: Notable Nebraskans - Grade Level [4]
• Lesson Plan: 1925-1949: Notable Nebraskans - Grade Level [4]
• Lesson Plans: 1925-1949: Tri-County Project - Grade Level [4-8]
• Lesson Plan: 1925-1949: Beef Goes Modern - Grade Level [8]
• Activities: 1925-1949: Nebraska and World War II - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1925-1949: Nebraskans On The Front Lines - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plans & Activity: 1925-1949: On The Home Front - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1925-1949: Arsenal for Democracy - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1925-1949: POWs Far From The Battleground - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1925-1949: Nebraska Helps Win The War - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plans: 1925-1949: The War: Nebraska Stories - Grade Level [4-12]



1950 - 1974

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• Activities: 1950-1974: The Cold War & Living In The Atomic Age - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1950-1974: The Red Menace - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1950-1974: The Creation of SAC - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1950-1974: Civil Defense - Grade Level [4-12]
• Lesson Plans: 1950-1974: Beef State - Grade Level [4]



1975 - 1999

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• Lesson Plan & Activities: 1975-1999: Crisis In Agriculture - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1975-1999: Foreclosures Lead To Violence - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1975-1999: “No Corporate Farms” - Grade Level [4-12]
• Activities: 1975-1999: Alternative Markets - Grade Level [4-12]



2000 - Present

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• Lesson Plans: 2000 - Present: Nebraska Beef Goes Global - Grade Level [4-12]