Summary:
Bring the topic of the American West to life with this Dynamic Learning resource, designed to be used alongside any American West course for all GCSE specifications.

CD-ROM 1: Investigations and Enquiries, provides a series of activities to cover the key content of the American West. Activities range from Flash-based animations and source-based labelling activities, to MovieMaker and Voting exercises. Image and Source Banks are also provided.
CD-ROM 2: Review and Revise, comprises activities to enable students to review and consolidate their learning, test their knowledge and develop their revision and examination skills. Features such as 'Maps in the American West' enable students to develop a clearer picture of the overall story of this period in American history.

The activities provided on both CD-ROMs offer alternative outcomes for higher and lower ability students, and with the inclusion of the Image and Source Banks the Lesson Builder can be used to adapt the resources to your own class' needs.

• Suitable for all GCSE History American West courses.

• Written by experienced teachers, writers and digital providers.

• An SHP official title.

• Dynamic Learning enables teachers to adapt the resources however they wish.

Table of Contents:
1 Outlaws and savages – was that the real West?
2 The Great Plains - an ‘American Desert’?
3 How important was the buffalo?
4 How warlike were the Sioux?
5 Could the Indians and the settlers ever agree about the land?
6 What was it like to be a Mountain Man?
7 Why did the Pioneers go West?
8 All that glistens is gold!
9 Who made the biggest contribution to the Mormon movement?
10 Why was the transcontinental railroad so impressive?
11 Homesteaders – why did they head West?
12 Why did the open range come to an end?
13 Is there a cowboy myth?
14 How wild was the Wild West?
15 Can you write a Western story set in Abilene?
16 Why was there conflict on the Plains?
17 How far was Custer responsible for the defeat at Little Bighorn?
18 How was the Plains Indian way of life destroyed?
19 So what was the real west?
20 Should the destruction of the Plains Indians be called genocide?

About the Author(s):
Sally Burnham - former Head of History at Deacon's School, Peterborough; Dave Martin - History advisor, formerly in Dorset, now in East Sussex. Also involved in teacher training for the OU; Nigel Watt - Head of History at All Saints Church of England Comp. School, Weymouth