Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 120 MinutesDate Posted: 4/30/2010
This lesson plan outlines topics for short research projects and classroom performances related to the Mexican War. Have students select individuals connected to the Mexican War, perform research, and then interview each other to showcase the disparate views on the motivations behind the War and perspectives on its outcomes. This lesson plan (which includes background information) was produced to accompany the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Museum education, Role playing
This lithograph illustrates the chaos and conflict engulfing northern Mexico during the years of ...
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