Teaching Guides
 

Manifest Destiny or Bust

Mission "To improve student achievement by supporting teching and learning in the classroom"
The Links within this source are solely to Sources through hypertext
The site employs a standard narrative for teachers to teach Manifest Destiny within the context of Westwrd Expansion
http://projects.edtech.sandinet/balboa/destiny/
 
 
 

National Center For History Standard Grades 5-12
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/era4-5-12.html

A basic narrative teaching guide what teachers should be looking for in order to teach Manifest destiny to the grades that they are teaching and what is expected. It contains no hypertextual links but could be used for bibliographic research ideas.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/era4-5-12.html#B
 

University of Texas
History 1311 Section 1--- Summer 1 2002

Another course outline that provided no links to any other information other than that of reference to the course guide. Although information in these links was in the form of documents and therefore could provide the historian with documentsry sources, and idea of what is important to the topic.

http://www.uta.edu/history/hist1311-1sum02-sm.htm

ThenTrial of Standing Bear

Of all the Teaching guides this particular guide was the most impressive. It provided teachers notes, and a context, but also valuable links to archival resources that were placed within the contexts of the topic they related to, enabled quick-linking to these archives. However the site did not provide an extensive bibliography that could have further enabled this archival information to be expanded upon which was unfortunate as the narrative was extremely brief.

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/standingbear/
 

Course Outlines

Hist1006: Foundations of The Modern World: The West In The Nineteenth Century
http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/firtsyear/westtop.htm

As a course guide it does provide valuable information in the sections Document Studies for The International Role of the United States, and the Bibliographic section. However the site does not provide anything more than hypertextual links to the lecturers sources and does not give any access to external sites. So apart from being a bibliographic source is if only using the internet virtually useless.
 


History 276: American Indian History Since 1700
Spring 1998
http://users.Hartwick.edu/~haanr/h276s98.htm

Another course guide that unfortunately embodies the majority of the study guides. Also the hyperlinks provided were inaccesible, as with many of the outlines and therefore make them useless apart from illustrating a course and providing some bibliographic information.
 
 

Conclusions




The Teachers guides and the course outlines above embody basically what was available on the Internet. Most provided bibliographic information within the constructs of the narrative. Few provided links and of those that did, chose links to either the larger Archives such as The Avalon Project or the Library of Congress  where when using the internet as a research median would probably have been accessed prior to reaching these, or to documents imputed into the course guide by lectures. Apart from this bibliographic information and the occaisional research material, that can be found in much larger contexts  in relevant archives, they provide very little use for the Historian apart from illustrating what other courses are doing and what their sources are