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Other Sessions 1. New World Encounters 2. The Coming Revolution 3. The New Nation 4. Expansion and Reform 5. Civil War and Reconstruction 6. The Settlement of the West 7. World War I 8. The Progressive Era 9. The Great Depression and the New Deal 10. The Civil Rights Movement

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Linking Content and Strategies

Journal: Apply This Strategy to Other Content Areas

Think about the applicability of this strategy (tactile learning) to some other topic in the history classroom. In your journal, describe a tactile learning activity you might incorporate into a different history topic.

Journal: Apply Other Strategies to This Content Area

Think about other strategies that you could apply to this topic (transformation of the American West) to help students understand the issues of immigration, rise of heavy industry, and growth of the railroad. Consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach in shaping an understanding of the relevant history. Describe the strategies in your journal.

To see a list of teaching strategies that could be applied to this and other topics in history, see Strategies.

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