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Teaching with Historic Places
 

The vast resources of big bend include numerous opportunities to tell a complex human history. Use these resources with your students to explore Big Bend's complicated past.

 
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Teaching with Historic Places
The Teaching with Historic Places program uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.

Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures [10 Mb PDF file]
Compare the Spanish and Anglo influences on settlements along the Texas-Mexico border region of the Rio Grande.

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