Download or read book Hands On History Expansion and the Oregon Trail written by Garth Sundem and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make American history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of U.S. history.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion written by Kristin Marciniak and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the factual details of the Oregon Trail and the United States' westward expansion in the 1800s. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a pioneer, a Native American in a territory crossed by the trail, and a U.S. soldier at a government outpost. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.
Download or read book Hands on History American History Activities written by Sundem, Garth and published by Shell Education. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of important events in American history such as Colonial America, The American Revolution, American Indian Experience, The Civil War, the Oregon Trail, Immigration, and the Civil Rights Movement. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history.
Download or read book You Choose The Oregon Trail written by Matthew John Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better lives. Will you: Go west with your family as part of a wagon train? Serve as a trail guide for a group of settlers? Try to cope with the changes in your way of life as a western American Indian? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.
Download or read book Hands On History American History Activities written by Garth Sundem and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making learning fun and interactive is a surefire way to excite your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for major historical topics. While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study, they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. Encouraging teamwork, creativity, intelligent reflection, and decision making, the games of Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history. 192pp.
Download or read book Westward Expansion written by Andi Stix and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students make their own journey on the Oregon Trail and are confronted by situations requiring difficult decisions or reliance on fate. Primary source materials present situtations that actually took place and recount the realities of life on the trail. Additional lessons include other facets of the great western expansion of the nineteenth century, including social forces that brought an end to the open frontier.
Download or read book Surviving the Oregon Trail written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, over half a million men, women and children traveled west on the Oregon Trail. Stretching two thousand miles from Independence Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Trail was the longest overland route used in the westward expansion. Crossing mountains and deserts, fighting disease, short of both food and water, pioneers endured many hardships to follow the trail west with their hopes and dreams of seeking fortunes in the unsettled west. Author Rebecca Stefoff traces the roots of the Oregon and California Trails back to the seventeenth century, telling the stories of those who left the security and comfort of their homes, to endure months of hard travel in the hope of a new life.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky mountain Life written by Francis Parkman and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Michael V. Uschan and published by Gareth Stevens Secondary Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1840s to the late 1860s, the Oregon Trail was the most important route in North America. Thousands of people traveled along the trail to reach lands west of the Rocky Mountains and make new homes for themselves. This book explains how the trail was developed and its significant impact on the expansion and settlement of the United States. It describes the challenges of the journey along the Oregon Trail and settlement in Oregon, and it also looks at the effect of white settlement on the Native peoples of the West. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Wild West written by Mark Mazzenga and published by Downtown Bookworks. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes to life with a keepsake treasure. Much like Science with Stuff gets kids excited about science with great visuals, carefully chosen factoids and a cool gift, History in Your Hands makes history fun and exciting. Kids can learn about westward expansion and hold real "fool's gold" in their hands. Just like the 49ers. The Wild West explores westward expansion--from the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon trail; through the experiences of riding in a wagon train or fording a river; to the gold rush itself. Readers will get a fascinating window into the life of pioneers, ranchers, settlers, and gold miners. The keepsake fool's gold will make a vivid reminder of one of the forces that drove Americans west.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just imagine-riding for six months in a wagon, choking on dust, sweating in searing heat, crossing raging rivers, fighting off disease and Indians-the life of a pioneer on the Oregon Trail. Beginning in the 1840s, thousands of Americans took the risk... and lumbered across this seemingly endless trail to a life of promise in the west. This book includes: What's in That Wagon? Manifest Destiny Perils Along the Trail Into the Unknown Who Were Those Pioneers Bountiful Buffalo Hands-on Activities Reproducible Activities Glossary Fascinating Facts Timeline And Lots More! Students can learn much from the compelling story of the overland pioneers who let nothing, and no one - including daunting Mother Nature, a vast, untamed wilderness, and hostilities of all kinds - stand in the way of their dreams and determination. Climb on up in your wagon and "bump along" in this fun, factual and "Wow-that's amazing" book!
Download or read book Life As a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail written by Jeri Freedman and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oregon Trail was an important part of American history. It helped bring new people to the western United States. Explore what life was like for pioneers on the Oregon Trail, what difficulties they faced along the way, and what it was like to live in Oregon once they arrived. Complete with vivid photographs, a glossary, and colorful designs, this is an excellent way to introduce readers to Americas early westward expansion.
Download or read book Westward Expansion written by James F. Salisbury and published by In the Hands of a Child. This book was released on 1994 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 8-week interdisciplinary unit for fourth- and fifth-grade students helps children address the U.S. westward expansion in the 1840's using the interactive software program, The Oregon Trail. The unit provides connections to literature, geography, computer/mathematics skills, language arts, and research skills. The work is done in cooperative groups over the course of the unit with a variety of assessment strategies suggested. Worksheets, handouts, and student materials are included. Upon completion of the unit students will be able to: (1) locate and identify the states along the Oregon Trail; (2) identify reasons for westward expansion; (3) gain a basic understanding of some of the native North American culture; (4) participate in collaborative group activities; and (5) demonstrate knowledge of life in the 1840s--food, clothing, families, etc. Selected bibliography contains 32 items. (EH)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rachel Lynette and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oregon Trail marked one of the major paths to the West. Readers learn why people embarked on this arduous journey, what life was like traveling along the trail, and the kinds of hardships faced along the way. Chapters trace the history of the Great Migration of 1843, the trails affect on settlement patterns, and the influence migration patterns had on Oregon statehood.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail in American History written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes one of the most important topics in the social studies curriculum, the great westward migration of the mid-nineteenth century, which was made possible by the Oregon Trail. It provides a glimpse into the lives of the emigrants, detailing their various reasons, ranging from greed to religious conviction, for their journey over the Trail which would pave the way for future highways.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Steven P. Olson and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Oregon Trail, its role in westward expansion, and the travails of the pioneers who followed it across the West.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new American journey.
