Teaching about the American West: Native Americans as Cowboys

The cowboy is viewed as an American icon: rugged rider of the range; champion of the good.

Clay has been used for many things throughout history, including writing surfaces, money, cooking vessels, and building materials.

“The camera doesn’t lie” is often assumed to be true about historical photographs, even though we know that maxim is certainly not true in the twenty-first century.

Adam Smith and his famous book The Wealth of Nations often make lists of things to know about the eighteenth century in economics and history classes.

Most times a movement promotes a direct change in society.

Writing has become an integral part of the social studies curriculum.

Throughout the years, teachers have used music in instruction, such as the ABC song, to teach the alphabet, and “The Hokey Pokey,” to teach body parts and directions.

As the end of the first semester during COVID-19 approaches, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how the experience has gone and what I can do going forward to make the school year a better experience for the students and myself.

Keeping students at the secondary level engaged in the virtual environment is difficult.