Teachers

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Web Exhibits / Student Activities to Explore

Texas Indians (Prehistoric)

Archaic

Hinds Cave; Morhiss Mound; Lower Pecos; Bonfire Shelter; Woodland Cultures;

Burying the Dead; Gathering Girl; Life in a Rockshelter; Solve an Ancient Mystery with Dr. Dirt

Caddo

Life and Times of the Caddo; Nasoni; Gilbert; Sha'chahdínnih; World of the Caddo

Jornada Mogollon

Firecracker Pueblo

Late Prehistoric

Graham-Applegate; Harrell; Plains Villagers of the Texas Panhandle; Camp Bowie; Hinojosa

Paleoindian

Gault; Bonfire Shelter; Lubbock Lake; Alibates; Kincaid Shelter; Time Travel to an Ancient Shelter

Plains Villager

Buried City; Hank's House

Prehistoric (general)

Imagine It!, Pictographs on Parade

Puebloan

Ceremonial Cave; Firecracker Pueblo, Madera Quemada

Texas Indians (Historic)

Apache

Apache; Cultural Collisions; Passing of the Indian Era

Aranama

Native Peoples in a Spanish World

Caddo

Historic Caddo

Coahuiltecan

Who Were the Coahuiltecans?

Comanche

Mission San Saba; Red River War; Cultural Collisions; Passing of the Indian Era; The Die is Cast; Indian Intruders from the North

Gueiquesale

Gueiquesale

Karankawa

Fort St. Louis

Kiowa and Kiowa Apache

Kiowa; Most Dangerous Priairie; Cultural Collisions; Passing of the Indian Era

Lipan Apache

Cultural Collisions; Passing of the Indian Era

Mescalero and Warm Springs Apache

Passing of the Indian Era; Trans-Pecos Trails

Puebloan

Ceremonial Cave; Firecracker Pueblo; Madera Quemada

Tonkawa

Passing of the Indian Era; Fort Griffin: Post on Government Hill; Meet the People of Fort Griffin and The Flat

Wichita

Mission San Saba

Other Indian Cultures

Plains Indians (general)

Talking Hands; Indian Intruders from the North

Southeastern U.S. Moundbuilders

The Mississippian World; Spiro and the Arkansas Basin

European Settlers/Explorers

French

Gilbert Site; Fort St. Louis; The Belle

German

Haas Farm ; Cultural Collisions in the Hill Country

Spanish

Journey with an Explorer; Falcon; Mission San Saba; Presidio San Saba; Mission Espiritu Santo; Gateway Missions; Early Ranching; Rancho del las Cabras; Los Adaes; El Paso Missions; Mapping the Past: Missions, Settlements, and a Mighty Mixed-Up River!

Mexican American

Osborn Farm; Wax Camps

African Americans

Rubin Hancock; Camp Ford; Empty Saddle at Mulberry Springs (Seminole Negro Indians); Cultural Collisions in the Hill Country (Buffalo Soldiers)

19th-20th Century American

Lake Jackson Plantation; Texas and the Western Frontier; Haas Farmstead; Osborn Farm; Camp Ford; Rubin Hancock; Guy Town; Aldridge Sawmill; Meet the People of Fort Griffin and The Flat

Civil War

Camp Ford; Nineteenth-Century Forts and the Clash of Cultures on the Texas Frontier

Texas Frontier

Nineteenth-Century Forts and the Clash of Cultures on the Texas Frontier; Red River War; Meet the People of Fort Griffin and the Flat

Great Tools for Teaching Geography of Texas

All exhibits on Texas Beyond History have numerous color photos showing landscapes and environmental contexts across the state. In addition, see these specific resources:

Texas’ Natural Resources: Galleries of Plants, Animals, and Rocks and Minerals

South Texas

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/nature/index.html

Central and Southwest Texas

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/nature/index.html

Trans-Pecos Mountains, Basins http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/trans-p/nature/index.html

Take a Virtual Field Trip to See Texas Landscapes and Rivers

South Texas Plains

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/index.html
(Lay of the Land)

Central and Southwest Texas Plateaus and Canyonlands

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/index.html
(Lay of the Land)

Pineywoods (east)

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/aldridge/forest.html

Lower Pecos canyonlands (southwest)

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/hinds/natural.html
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/pecos/natural.html

Central Texas

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kincaid/env.html
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/beene/natural.html

Central North Texas

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/bowie/environment.html

Learn about How Rivers Change Landscapes over Time:

Stratification in Action

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/beene/digging/index.php