For Iowa History- Unit 6 Powerpoint video Learn about the European Settlement of Iowa Land 1833 to Statehood in 1846• Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host rese...

For Iowa History- Learn about the European Settlement of Iowa Land 1833 to Statehood in 1846• Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host researcher, auth...

For Iowa History- Unit 7 PowerPoint video Learn about Iowa's Statehood 1846 to the Historic Sale of Prairie land Starting in 1870• Video narrative written by Sandra Kess...

For Iowa History- Learn about Iowa's Statehood 1846 to the Historic Sale of Paraireland Starting in 1870• Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host res...

For Iowa History- Unit 8 PPT Learn about the Successful Transformation of the Tallgrass Prairie from 1870-1900• Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Ho...

For Iowa History- Learn about the Successful Transformation of the Tallgrass Prairie from 1870-1900• Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host researche...

Learn more about how immigrants settled Iowa by developing farms and built schools on the tall grass prairie in Iowa. Through video, primary sources, activities and text learn more about:
A) Preparation for Settlement of Iowa's Treeless Tall Grass Prairie
B) Promotion of Large Scale Prairie Settlement of 3/4 of Iowa

Learn more about how immigrants settled Iowa by developing farms and built schools on the tall grass prairie in Iowa. Through video, primary sources, activities and text learn more about:
(Continued from part 1)
C) Transformation of Prairie to Farms, Towns and Building One Room Schools
D) Operation and Success of the Iowa Rural School System Over Time
E) Challenges and the end of the Iowa Rural School System

Trade issues occasionally dominate and are a continuing theme of the international scene: the global market, sweatshops, child labor, trade deficits, the euro, sanctions, tariffs, embargoes, and the EU, NAFTA, WTO, the seemingly endless alphabet of interest groups, treaties, organizations, and trade agreements. As a classroom topic, international trade has the great advantage of providing ready-made material for teachers wanting to engage student interest in current events. On the other hand, the complexity of the issues surrounding trade is daunting. While economic reasoning doesn't guarantee resolution of the issues, it is a powerful tool of critical thinking that brings clarity to the discussion of current events. The ability to determine comparative advantage through opportunity cost, the ability to identify incentives and predict resulting behavior, and the ability to use supply and demand analysis of particular labor and resource markets, help students to set aside the emotion of international trade issues and cut through the rhetoric of media reports.

Materials developed under a grant from the Michigan Dept of Education. The MI Open Book Project is a multi-year initiative funded as part of the Technology Readiness Infrastructure Grant (TRIG) which will empower groups of master teachers to come together, collaborate, and develop a open education resource for use in classrooms around Michigan. Full textbooks. All books will run on iOS, OSX, Andriod, Windows, and Chrome.

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