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Louisiana Purchase Mapping Activity

The document provides instructions for a 6th grade social studies lesson where students will use an online mapmaking tool to create a map depicting the Louisiana Purchase and how it expanded U.S. territory. Students will first receive background information on the Louisiana Purchase and view example maps before and after the acquisition, then use specific steps to outline the Louisiana Purchase boundaries on a map they generate themselves using the National Geographic website.

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Louisiana Purchase Mapping Activity

The document provides instructions for a 6th grade social studies lesson where students will use an online mapmaking tool to create a map depicting the Louisiana Purchase and how it expanded U.S. territory. Students will first receive background information on the Louisiana Purchase and view example maps before and after the acquisition, then use specific steps to outline the Louisiana Purchase boundaries on a map they generate themselves using the National Geographic website.

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Justice Sellers

September 17th, 2018

TPACK Creating Assignment Template

Subject Social Studies

Grade 6th Grade


Content Knowledge

Level

Learning USI.8 a) The student will apply social science skills to understand westward expansion
Objective and reform in America from 1801 to 1861 by describing territorial expansion and how
it affected the political map of the United States, with emphasis on the Louisiana
Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the acquisitions of Florida, Texas,
Oregon, and California.
Activity The students will be involved in creating a map that depicts the Louisiana Purchase. I
will begin the class by giving the students background information for the Louisiana
Purchase. I will then show them 2 maps; a before and after of the United States in
regard to the acquisition of the Louisiana territory. The students will then create their
own maps of the U.S. using a map maker on the NatGeo website. I will have an
example map of the mapped out 13 colonies that shows the students how the program
works. The point of mapping out the Louisiana Purchase is to give students the
opportunity to see how to country changed throughout the Colonial period of American
history. The map maker can be found at https://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org
Pedagogy

Technology The students will be using MapMaker Interactive on the National Geographic website.
Name of the device
and/or programs
being used. (The
description of what
Technology

the students will be


doing with the
technology will be
included in the
pedagogy/activity
section).
Directions Step 1. Open your preferred browser (Chrome, FireFox, Edge, etc.)
for Use
Please provide
step-by-step
Step 2. Type in the URL I have provided: https://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org
instructions for
your students to
use the tool to Step 3. Focus the map on the United States of America
complete their
assignment.
Depending on the Step 4. On the right side of the screen, there is a tab that says, “base maps”; students
age of your should select the Gray base map option
student, this might
begin with 1. Click
on Earth to open
the Internet. Etc..
Step 5. On the left side of the of the page, there is a line tool above the green pentagon,
click on this tool

Step 6. Use the tool to outline the Louisiana Purchase along the correct state
boundaries.

Step 7. Once the mapping of the Louisiana Purchase is complete, save the map, print it
out, and give it to me.
Link to the https://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/OFwG54zVJMvuDkfjp1hAJ/?edit=bOgcvfSgoDC801CxE212uF
example
product
Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).

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