Pioneer
information from Sherwood School
What
were pioneer homes,
schools,
and farms
like?
What
kind of crafts did pioneers do?
What
did they eat and what did they wear?
What
jobs did pioneer
women and pioneer men do?
How
did they travel? How did they cross
rivers?
What
did they do for fun?
What kind of entertainment
did they have?
How
did pioneers take care of their health?
Who
were some famous pioneers?
The
Oregon Trail
Oregon
Trail
On the Oregon Trail
was developed by students at Greenway Elementary in Beaverton, Oregon.
You can find sites about the trail by doing a Web Inquiry and answering
questions on the web, along with learning about landmarks and people, reading
diaries, and doing puzzles. |
The
Oregon Trail
site is done by the
people who did a PBS documentary about the OregonTrail. Find fantastic
facts about weird wagons, a $100 drink of water, being buried alive, or
read the full diaries of people like Narcissa Whitman. Visit historic sites
all along the trail. |
End
of the Trail
This site lets you
read pioneer diaries and emigrant biographies. Find a diagram of prairie
schooner, provisions (things pioneers needed) and prices, and answers to
questions people ask a lot, like "What is the Oregon Trail?" |
Oregon
Trail
This site is a list
of links with historical sites, timelines, maps, information about cooking
meat, wagon trains, illnesses, myths about pioneers, trivia, and so much
more. |
The
Oregon Trail
site is done by the
people who did a PBS documentary about the Oregon Trail. Find fantastic
facts about weird wagons, a $100 drink of water, being buried alive, or
read the full diaries of people like Narcissa Whitman. Visit historic sites
all along the trail. |
On
the Oregon Trail
Find sites about the
trail by doing a Web Inquiry and answering questions on the web, along
with learning about landmarks and people, reading diaries, and doing puzzles. |
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True
Trail Stories |
Wild
West
travel along the Oregon
Trail, choosing famous landmarks like Chimney Rock, Independence, Missouri,
and
soda springs to visit. To see photos of the Oregon Trail, along with a
modern map and an 1843 map, click here. Look here for information about
forts, too! |
Webquests
and Projects
Westward
Ho Webquest
The time is the early
1800's. Your family has decided to join the next wagon train moving west.
Your parents are willing to give up their little farm here in Missouri
and make the long journey west in hopes of building a better life. But,
you have heard stories about the hard trip and have many worries. What
supplies will you need? How will you get your wagon across rivers? Will
the Wild West be too wild? Let's find answers to these questions before
we pack our wagon and head west! Check out the resources! |
The
Westward Bound
Home Page Planning
section includes: Why should we go west, which trail or what supplies should
we take, and what will our roles (like doctor, farmer) be?
Journey section includes:
natural obstacles, illnesses, transportation problems, and dealing with
strangers. |
Pioneers
is an excellent ThinkQuest,
Jr. site. Topics: who the pioneers were, what trails they used, how they
traveled, what they took along, what their wagons were like, what they
did after they reached their new homes, cooking, firebuilding, dangers
and first aid on the trail, pioneer pastimes, toys, and river crossings. |
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