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A Texas Alphabet - Students create an alphabet book based on Texas themes source

Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures - A lesson plan that uses primary source documents to compare Spanish and Anglo influences on settlements along the Texas-Mexico Rio Grande border source

Explore Texas - Unit bibliographies, lesson plans, and printable project pages to accompany Houghton Mifflins Explore Texas. Activities are adaptable for use without the textbook series source

Galveston Bay On-line Curriculum - An integrated unit about Galveston Bay. The unit includes a pre-test, lesson plans, and related materials source

Math Surf Texas - From Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley, lesson plans that integrate teaching about Texas with teaching math. Printable worksheets correlated to TAAS objectives are provided source

San Antonio Missions: Spanish Influence in Texas - A lesson plan with printable pictures, readings and maps about Spanish Missions built during the early colonization of Texas. Extension activities are also included source

Texas A Shared Experience - Lessons, maps, activity ideas, and information about Texas history from Native Americans to the present. Includes a Real Video link about Texas architecture source

Texas Edition Lesson Plans - Lesson plans and project ideas for teaching about Texas geography, history, government, and culture. These lessons are designed for web-based research, but adaptable source

Texas Facts and State Symbols - Classroom reproducibles and information about the state of Texas. Printables include a blackline state map and coloring pages of Texas flag, state bird, insect, mammal, pant, and symbols source

Texas State Map - A printable blackline map to color and label source

Texas Vanishing Species - Four collections of integrated lesson plans about endangerment of humans, plants, and animals in Texas. Lessons involve folktales, games, and student-centered activities source

Texas Wordsearch - Students find names of Texas cities in a printable puzzle source

The Adventures of the Alamo - A five day, web-based instructional unit about the Alamo, its location, and its heroes source

The Alamo - Tour the Alamo, learn about its hsitory, and click on "For Teachers" for lesson plans about the Mission at San Antonio de Bexar source

The Alamo - A printable wordsearch puzzle source

Who Are Texas Indians? - Students can read information, make an Arcahiac-styles matt, complete a printable worksheet, a view a chart about the Native Americans of Texas source

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