The Grand Adventure

Summary

Four educational lessons move from the present to the past and from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Travel through time on highways, back roads, and trails. Discover what was bought, sold, and traded. Learn how a time of exploration shaped our lives today.

The lessons present the history of travel and trade on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the 1,550-mile road that linked Mexico City to Santa Fe during Spanish colonial and later times. The lessons have been designed to be used in both New Mexico and Mexico, in English-only, English-as-a-second-language, bilingual, and Spanish-only classrooms. The lessons can be used as stand-alone activities, or to supplement traditional classroom texts and existing units. Each lesson is tied to a set of concepts and can be used by itself, in relation to other topics, or as part of a larger unit on El Camino Real.

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• SRI Foundation

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Contact(s): Jeffrey Altschul

Notes

General Note: Intended for grades 5-8.

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