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 Westward Expansion
Across The Wide Lonesome Prairie

Scholastic Discussion Guide

 Pioneer Spirit
 The Jumping Off Place
 Webquests/Interactive
 Transportation
 1. Why Go West?
 1.Oregon Trail Web-Bit
 1. Westward Ho! Webquest
 1.Conestoga Wagons
2. Reasons To Go West
 2. Jumping Off Place:Oregon Trail
 2. Think Quest Pioneers
 2. What's In The Wagon?
3. Our America
 3. Independence MO
 3.Oregon Trail ThinkQuest
 3. Prairie Schooners
 4. Westward Expansion Site
 4. Interesting Trail Facts
 4.Wagons West WebQuest
 4. The Wagon Business
 5. The American West
 5. Westward Exp. Scavenger
 5.The Donner Party Webquest
 5. ThinkQuest:Pioneer's Journey 
 6. PBS The West
 6. PBS The West
 6. Gold Rush:Supply & Demand
 6. Wagon Report
 7. Westward Expansion
 7. History Channel Video Wagon Trains
 7. Wagons West
 *7. Animal Power
 8. Westward Expansion
 8. Missouri River
 8. Pioneers of The Wild West
 8. Packing Your Wagon
 9. PBS The West
 9. The Jumping Off Place
 9. Diamond Ranch:Cowboy
 9. Parts of A Wagon
 10. Children's Chores
 10. American West
 10. PBS American West:Timeline
 10. Stagecoaches
 11. Westward Expansion
 11. The Homestead Act
 11. American Westward Expansion
 11. Transportation Problems
12.Wagon Provisions
12. The Plains Wars
 12. Oregon Trail Inquiry
12. Pioneer Clothing
13. If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon
13. 
13. Oregon Trail Index
13. Children's Chores
14.The Oregon Trail:Interactive Stopping Places
14. 
14. American Pioneer Sites
14. Wagons on the Trail West
16. Texas & War W/Mexico
 15.Cattle Drives
15. Pioneers of The Wild West
15. The Cattle Kingdom
 17. Quia Frontier Vocabulary
  16. Diseases on The Trail
16. Independence Daily News  WQ
16. Settling On The Plains
 18. Sod Houses
 17. Cholera:Treatment
 17. Wagons West WQ
 17. The Plains Wars
19. If You Traveled West Plans
 18. 
 18. Gold Rush Web-Bit
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 19. Biomes On the Trail
 
21. The Journey
20.
20. Pioneers of The Wild West
 22.The First American West
21.
 Gold Fever
 23. We Study The Oregon Trail
22.
 Gold Rush
 24. Archives of West Settlement
23.
 PBS WayBack:Goldrush
25. Goldrush
24.
 The Klondike Goldrush
 26. Moving West
 25.
 
27. The Jumping Off Place
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28. Oregon Trail Guidebook
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Vocabulary/History
Comprehension
Journal Assignments
Pioneers
 1. Primary & Secondary Sources
 1. A Day In The Life of ...
 1. Heritage Pioneer Biographies
1.Pioneer Multimedia
 2. Holidays Past:Primary Sources
 2. A  Room In Time
 2. Photos of Pioneers
 2. Kit Carson
 3. Oregon Trail Diaries
 3. Traveling West
 3. Hardships On The Trail
 3. The Whitmans
 4. Student Journal Entries
 4. Arts and Crafts
 4. River Crossings
 4. The Coyles
5. The Pioneer Story
5.The Coyle Family
5. What Is Cholera?
 5. Families Going West
 6.First American Primary Sources
6. Pioneer's Stories
6. What Is Typhoid Fever?
 6. Photographs of Pioneers
 7. End of The Trail:History
7. Quia Frontier Vocabulary
7. Pioneer Tidbits
 7. Famous Pioneers
 8. Kid Info:American History
 8. Scholastic Westward Ho Quiz
 8. Various Hardships
 8. Picture of Sod House
 9. History of American West:Pic
 
 9. Life on The Trail
 9. Pioneers, Mt. Men, Fur Trappers
10. Pioneer History TidBits
 
 10. Oregon Trail Web Inquiry
10. Mountain Men
 11. Examples of Primary Sources
 The Wild West: Cowboys
 11. Oregon Trail History Library
11. History of Fur Trade
 12. EduPlace Primary Sources
   
12. The Texas Revolution
 13. American West
 The Oregon Territory History
 
13. Davy Crocket
 14. Buffalo Soldiers
   
14. Song:Oh, Susanna
 15. Panoramic Maps in History
   
 15. Food Timeline
16. Kid Info:American History
   
 16. American Pioneers
17. Buffalo Soldiers
   
 17. Pioneers of The Wild West
 18. The Old West/Buffalo Soldiers