Resources

Student Sources

• Locks on the Erie Canal
• Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal
• Primary Source Materials for Aqueducts
• Primary Source Materials for Boats
• Primary Source Materials for Little Falls, New York
• Primary Source Materials for Maxims
• Primary Source Materials for "Mind Travel"
• Images from American Memory: Part One
• Images from American Memory: Part Two
• Images from the New York State Historical Association Library: Part One
• Images from the New York State Historical Association Library: Part Two
• Primary Source Materials for Schenectady, New York
• Primary and Online Source Materials for Train Transportation
• Primary Source Materials for the Transportation Corridor of the Mohawk Valley
• Primary Source Materials for Troy, New York

Teacher Sources

• Abbott, Jacob. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels on the Erie Canal. Interlaken: Empire State Books, 1987.
• A Canalboat Primer on the Canals of New York State. Ed. Staff of the Canal Museum. Syracuse: Canal Museum, 1981.
• Harness, Cheryl. The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995.
• Hullfish, William, comp. and ed. The Canaller's Songbook. Berkeley Heights: Canal Captain's Press, 1984.
• Rinker, Harry L. "The Old Raging Erie... There Have Been Several Changes:" A Postcard History of the Erie Canal and Other New York State Canals (1895-1915). Berkeley Heights: Canal Captain's Press, 1984.
• Stack, Debbie J., and Donald A. Wilson, ed. Always Know Your Pal: Children on the Erie Canal. Syracuse:  Erie Canal Museum, Inc., 1993.

Magazines

• Cobblestone: The Erie Canal. October 1982.

Video

• Lane, Pancho. Along the Erie Canal. Ethnoscope, n.d..

Online

• Learning Page Workshop:
• What Do You See?
• How Does It Read?
• What Are Primary Sources?

• Web sites outside the Library of Congress
• The Erie Canal
• History of the Erie Canal at the University of Rochester
• Rochester Images

Materials

• Response Journal Questions
• Evaluation
• Graphic Organizer for "Mind Travel"
• Graphic Organizer for Chapter IV

Examples of Student Work

• Primary Source Alphabet Book
• Response Journal
• "Word Wall"

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