Description: This interactive map allows students to click on any part of the map to learn all about the hideaways, strongholds, and places of interest during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This scavenger hunt is meant to be used with the Pirates of the Caribbean Interactive Map

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This page describes New Orleans as an important hideout for the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This is a full biography of French explorer Robert Sieur de la Salle

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This is a biography about the famous New Orleans-based pirate, Jean Lafitte.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This page describes the Louisiana Purchase.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This articles discusses the history of colonial America and during the Civil War era

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This page describes the Battle of New Orleans

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Description: This comprehensive section includes profiles of twelve American land acquisitions or occupations including the Louisiana Purchase, Adams-Onis Treaty, Mexican-American war acquisitions, Alaska Purchase, Hawaii annexation, and many others.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This activity requires students to use the interactive map to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Profiles of America's Land Acquisition Section

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Description: This page describes the process in which eleven southern states seceded, forming the Confederate States of America.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Description: This interactive map allows students to click on any state to learn its role in the Civil War. Awesome for research.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6