Adventures in Time and Place

Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 4: A Young Nation
Infographic #7: Moving West, 1840-1860
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1. You've read about the wagon trails to the West. Now learn about the pioneers and their life on the trail. Students created this award-winning Web site called Pioneers.
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/

Click each question and read its answer, beginning with Who Were the Pioneers?
Work with a partner to take notes on the answers to the questions.
After reading the last question and answer, click Pioneers to go back to the home page.
Scroll to the bottom. Click and read the pages about pioneer life, such as Cooking and Pioneer Toys.
Work with a partner to take notes about the information on these pages.

Online Activity: All About Pioneers
Work with your partner to complete the activity. Use each of the words below in a sentence. Write the sentence in the box provided.

2. How were the lives of pioneer women different from pioneer men? How were pioneer women’s lives different from the lives of modern women. To answer these questions read Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail.
http://www.opb.org/womensvoices/

Click The Women and read the short paragraphs about the women who wrote about their travels on the Oregon Trail.
Click the Back arrow. Then look under the photo. Find and click Transcripts.
Read the longer stories of the women.
If you are working with a partner take turns reading the words aloud.

Offline Activity: The Long Walk to Oregon
Imagine that you are a woman or child traveling on the Oregon Trail. Using the information you have taken from the site, write about a typical day on the trail. List all of the tasks you have to do from dawn until sundown. Write about your hopes and fears for what lies ahead. Write about the weather and the things you like and dislike about the journey.