Pioneer Life | Westward Expansion | California Gold Rush | Oregon Trail

Description

Looking for resources to have Pioneer Days in your classroom? Look no further than this complete unit on pioneers, including the California Gold Rush and the Oregon Trail. This unit includes activities to stretch out Pioneer Days to a full week or pick and choose what you have time for in the classroom. INCLUDES BOTH A PRINT AND MADE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES DIGITAL VERSION.

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INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

ELA activities:

• Pioneers “are, can, have” brainstorming chart
• “Pioneers” informational reading page with vocabulary foldable, main idea/ detail

graphic organizer

• “The Journey West: Looking at Different Perspectives” fictional reading passage, graphic organizers, text-based questions page, descriptive writing graphic organizer and writing page, opinion writing prompt, graphic organizer, and writing page
• “California Gold Rush” informational reading passage, vocabulary foldable
• “The Journey West” informational reading passage, cause and effect graphic

organizer

• “Life on the Frontier” informational reading passage, sequencing graphic organizer
• “Pioneer Children” informational reading passage, Text-evidence questions page,

Compare and Contrast cut and paste

• “The Oregon Trail” graphic source with passage, comprehension questions page
• “Mine, Mine, Mine” possessive nouns practice

Math Activities:

• Panning for Gold Activity-graphing practice page, reading a graph questions page
• “Planting a Garden” area & perimeter activity page
• Multi-step word problems page (pioneer themed)
• “Time’s a Tickin'” Elapsed time practice page
• Math skills practice cut and paste
• Multiplication color by number

Games: (direction pages included)

• “Drop the Handkerchief”
• “Hot or Cold”
• “Poor Doggy”
• “Bind Man’s Bluff”
• “Bear in the Pit”

Recipes:

• Hard Tack
• Butter

Extras:

• Pioneer ABC
• Pioneer Coloring Notes page

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