Title: If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
Description:
In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare imagined travel experiences of their own with the actual experiences of 19th-century pioneers. After creating, as a class, oral stories about contemporary cross-country journeys, students learn about the experiences of the emigrants who traveled on the Oregon Trail. They then create works of historical fiction in the form of picture books, drawing upon the information they have learned.
Standard(s):
[SS2010] LWT1 (1) 6:
6 ) Compare ways individuals and groups in the local community and state lived in the past to how they live today. (Alabama)
Identifying past and present forms of communication
Examples: past—letter, radio, rotary-dial telephone
present—e-mail, television, cellular telephone
Identifying past and present types of apparel
Identifying past and present types of technology
Examples: past—record player, typewriter, wood-burning stove
present—compact diskette (CD) and digital video diskette (DVD) players, video cassette recorder (VCR), computer, microwave oven
Identifying past and present types of recreation
Examples: past—marbles, hopscotch, jump rope
present—video games, computer games
Identifying past and present primary sources
Examples: past—letters, newspapers
present—e-mail, Internet articles