Community Dreams
Object Details
- Description
- Online exhibit exploring the impact that the development of coast-to-coast railroads had on life in America. Railroads made it possible for towns and cities to flourish away from the coasts and waterways that had been America's main transportation networks, creating new social, political, and economic ties. This is the second section of the online exhibition America on the Move.
- Use Rights Links
- http://www.si.edu/termsofuse/
- Educational Use
- Reading, Visual/Spatial
- Learning Resource Type
- On-Line
- Educational Role
- student, teacher
- Time required
- 10 min
- Interactivity Type
- Expositive
- Accessibility Feature
- structuralNavigation
- Accessibility Hazard
- noFlashingHazard, noMotionSimulationHazard, noSoundHazard
- Accessibility Control
- fullMouseControl
- Data source
- SI Center for Learning and Digital Access
- Publisher
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Object type
- Lesson Plan
- Educational alignment
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8
- Topic
- American History
- Business - Careers
- Immigration - Migration
- States - Regions
- Transportation
- Social Sciences
- Economics
- Geography
- Muckrackers
- Tourism
- Transcontinental railroad
- Westward expansion
- National rail system
- Locomotive
- Typical age range 8-10
- Typical age range 10-12
- Typical age range 12-14
- Typical age range 14-16
- Typical age range 16-18
- Language
- English
- Record ID
- SCLDA_342
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply
