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Posters
- Have students design a poster that advertises the prairies of North Dakota so people will move, claim a homestead, and settle.
- Have students create a poster that encourages the settlers to send their children to school.
- Have students create a poster showing an outline of a classroom showing the location of each desk. Using colors to create a legend, indicate different ancestries in the class by coloring each desk to indicate the dominant ancestry of each student.
- Extension: Discuss in small groups or as an entire group the strength of multiple ethnic groups in a town or region and their impact on each other.
- Poster Board Rubric (pdf)
- Have students create a poster that encourages workers to come and work on a large-scale bonanza farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota.
