Extractions: United States History, Nebraska History, Geography, Civics/Government, Economics Students will describe the contributions from the cultural and ethnic groups that made up our national heritage: Native Americans Hispanic Americans African Americans , European Americans, and Asian Americans Example Indicators: Identify regional characteristics, e.g., Navaho Amish , and Polynesian. Identify important men and women from different cultural and ethnic groups. Identify famous inventors Identify contributions of special groups, e.g.
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Reliving Lewis And Clark: Up The Missouri Beyond Kansas Offer for 1 year subscription to National Geographic Magazine for $19. A team reenacting the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached Kansas City a few weeks http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0719_040719_lewisclark5.html
Extractions: July 19, 2004 The long layover in Kansas City was necessary to fulfill all the ceremonial and educational responsibilities these men find themselves responsible for. Virtually everywhere they stop, people want to meet with them, ask questions, visit the boats, and look at their equipment. Scott Mandrell, who is playing Lewis, has to give talks and grant interviews all along the route. Their days in Kansas City were fully scheduled. And a few spectators want to go along. Twice in June people offered to join the group and play the role of York, Clark's slave, for a while. One of them was an African visiting the United States. Volunteers should know that it's not all fun and speeches. A certain amount of work has to get done every day on the three boats the reenactors are traveling in. One day the mast of the keelboat was tangled in grapevines hanging from a tree. The only way to cut it free was for someone to climb the mast. Mandrell one day made an oar, from scratch. (Lewis and Clark had to do this periodically as well.)
Yale Peabody Museum GNIS Database The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a data system developed the location of the city hall or town hall, main post office, main library, http://george.peabody.yale.edu/gnis/
Extractions: Enter some place term(s) of interest to you in the field above CONNECTICUT Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming ANY FEATURE POPULATED PLACE airport arch area arroyo bar basin bay beach bench bend bridge building canal cape cemetery channel church civil cliff crater crossing dam falls flat forest gap geyser glacier gut harbor hospital island isthmus lake lava levee locale mine oilfield other park pillar plain ppl range rapids reserve reservoir ridge school sea slope spring stream summit swamp tower trail tunnel valley well woods Limit searches to county GNIS database via USGS Canadian Geographic Names database GNIS Search Forms for Individual States Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas ... Wyoming Available from this portion of the Peabody Museum web are 1,233,933 records corresponding to the labeled features that can be found on the 1:24,000 scale topographic maps of the US Geological Survey. A synopsis of the GNIS is as follows (excerpted from the USGS/GNIS FactSheet, June 1991):