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🗺️ 8th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.7.6-8Unit 3: The early republic & westward expansion

Manifest Destiny

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🎯 Objective: Students explain westward expansion and its costs.

Lesson outline

  1. Map.
  2. Perspectives.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one perspective.

Lesson 4 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Geo.7.6-8

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe the early presidencies
  • Explain westward expansion and its effects on Native nations

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “The early republic & westward expansion”

  1. Washington to Jefferson
  2. The Louisiana Purchase
  3. Indian Removal
  4. Manifest Destiny

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