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Heritage: Packing Your Handcart
Fourth graders pack their imaginary handcart with the necessary items and take into account the bulk and weight of it. They discuss what would happen if one ran out of a certain material.
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Cycles of Change and Growth in the Mormon Trek: Compar
Students decide whether the Reenactment Trek of 1997 parallels the attitudes and challenges of the 1847 Trek.
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Influences of Black Oregon Trail Settlers
Students discuss reasons settlers settled in the Oregon Territory. Then, through the examination of primary documents, they compare the influences upon black settlers and how those influences were important to the settlement of the...
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Ghettos & Deportation and The Camps
In this Holocaust learning exercise, students complete a graphic organizer by filling in details about the conditions, consequences, and choices regarding ghetto life and deportation of Holocaust survivors
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Transportation
Students learn all about how people and products get from place to place.
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How Do You Get to School?
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Go Far in a Car
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They are shown the book, This is the Way We Go to School. Afterward, they learn the phonetic principle of rhyming words.
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How Does It Move?
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They attempt to sing the song again, but change it for a tractor. They watch the book, A Visit With Grandma, through a projector, LCD panel, or big screen television and develop their...
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Students explore transportation and transportation related jobs as they improve their vocabulary.
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Are We There Yet?
Students continue to study rhyming words. They use words and illustrations to help develop their vocabulary.
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The Globe and World Map
Learners explore how to use maps for travel. For this map skills lesson, students read the text, With Love from Gran and discuss the places the character traveled. Learners list the names of each city and country on chart paper.
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Revising With Precision
In this revisions worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences, 15 total, with "vivid and precise" word. Students are instructed that they may use a thesaurus.
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Getting from Place to Place
Students examine modes of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on modes of transportation over the past 300 years. Students respond to questions about the lecture.
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Spelling List 24: Sight Words, R-Controlled Vowels, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list instructional activity, students practice spelling words that are sight words, r controlled vowels, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
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Toy Store Math
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems using the operation of multiplication to determine the prices for the items bought at the toy store.
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Extreme Weather
Tenth graders explore how to avoid problems that occur during extreme weather and how accidents can be avoided by not taking risks.
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Pilots, Drivers, and Captains
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus, then change the words for a boat.
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Life on the Canadian Prairie in the Late 1880s
Sixth graders are read excerpts of the book "Pioneer Girl" by their teacher. Using the text, they discover what life was like on the Canadian Prairies during the 1880s. They discuss why people moved west and the expansion of the railroad...
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Underground Railroad Code Words and Phrases
In this Underground Railroad worksheet, students read a list of code words and phrases used during the time of the Underground Railroad, 26 total.
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Grew to the West
In this westward growth activity, students use lyrics given to follow along with the song "Grew to the West," filling in blanks to answer simple questions throughout. Students then answer 10 additional questions about the song. Song link...
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Food Timeline: Westward Ho! Wagon Train Cookery
Get a realistic view of how pioneers in wagon trains kept, stored, and cooked food on their months-long journeys out west. Learn what kinds of food they took and how much it cost them.
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Information About Wagon Trains: The Wagon
Provides information about the wagons and animal teams to pull them.
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Emigrant Wagons Roll Westward
This resource is an excerpt from the memoirs of David Arthur of his traveling to Oregon by wagon train with his parents. It was originally published in an Oregon newspaper in 1889.
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Uen: Heritage Gateways: Food
Click through eighteen pages of information about food and cooking as it was experienced by people traveling by wagon train to Utah, and as they began to settle into homesteads and communities. This site began as part of the 1997...