Topics Covered:
5 Themes of Geography (Movement, Human-Environment Interaction, Region, Location, Place)
Map Skills (50 states, Latitude & Longitude, etc)
Physical Geography (Regions, Landforms, Climate, Water, Ecosystems, Natural Resources)
Human Geography (Political Systems, Economic Systems, Culture)
Human and Environment Interactions & Implications
Topics Covered:
Kansas Geography
Earliest People (Migration Theories, Native American Tribes, etc)
US Expansion (Explorers, Early Settlers, Indian Removal, etc)
Crossing Kansas (Oregon-California Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Frontier Forts, etc)
Road to Statehood (Legislation, Bleeding Kansas, Constitutions, etc)
Topics Covered:
Civil War
Westward Expansion (Railroad, Pony Express, etc)
Homestead Act (Homesteading, Migration to KS, etc)
Cattle Industry (Cattle Drives, Cow towns, Cowboys, etc)
Gilded Age (Reform Movements)
Topics Covered:
Early 1900s (WWI, Roaring 20s, Stock Market Crash, etc)
Great Depression & Recovery (Dust Bowl, New Deal, WWII)
Civil Rights (Segregation, Brown vs Board of Education, etc)
Cold War (Korean War, Vietnam War, Space Race. etc)