Oregon+Trail09

Requirements for Oregon Trail http://wagonswest.wikispaces.com/Wagons+West

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/00.ar.knight.html http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orbenton/COONDIAR.htm http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/00.ar.akin.html media type="custom" key="3220838" media type="custom" key="3221016" As stated yesterday, the "assignment" has changed a bit. You will be working in groups with the kiddos from New York to solve various problems that settlers had along the trail. Each group will be made-up of two pioneer families. One from New York. One from Connecticut. So that's right, look at each of your groups members. You are now a family. I will let you figure out who is the mom, dad, and kids(Mohammed you are whatever Julie and Charisse tell you). That means that for the assignment that you are going to do in preparation for next Friday you will do it role playing a family.

Ok--ready for what you have to do? Of course you are! You are going to create a Pecha Kucha (look it up!) on the Oregon Trail. It will be presented at the start of Wednesday's class. If everyone does it correctly we it should take the entire class 45 minutes to present. In your Pecha Kucha you are going to include the slides that you have already created. For the remaining slides (after looking up Pecha Kucha you should know how many more slides you need) you will include the following topics(check out the docs at the bottom of this page for some info on each--utilize other sources as well):
 * 1) Provisons
 * 2) Buffalo
 * 3) Camping
 * 4) Doctors and Disease
 * 5) Everday life
 * 6) Medicines
 * 7) Hardships
 * 8) Starting point/jumping off
 * 9) Outfitting for trail
 * 10) Transportation/Covered Wagon
 * 11) The route (Stick to Oregon Trail)
 * 12) Water

I will let you figure out the order and how to incorporate the slides you already made. The Pecha Kucha needs to be completed by 9:00am Monday morning. The second half of the block you are going to record the narration and then we will post them to youtube and teachertube. Because these will be widely distributed, please include a final slide with all your sources for images and info. Be creative finding your images. Think about what you are trying to represent. If you are talking about harships along the trail, you might not be able to search for "Oregon Trail broken wagon" but a search in flickr for "wagon wheel" would turn up [|this.] If you are talking about death and disease it would be hard to find a picture of the disease, but searching "graveyard" gets you [|this]. Would be a great background image to use as you talk about that problems they faced.

MI--if J and C don't come running up to me Friday with utter joy in their hearts because you are the best group member ever you better just bring your textbook to class on Monday.

Groups Air


 * Beginnings: **
 * Reasons why so many went west.
 * The beginning of a typical journey west: preparations; starting out
 * Across the Plains – Independence, MO to Ft Laramie Wyoming: **
 * Starting points
 * Landmarks along trail
 * Problems of wilderness camping
 * Buffalo 
 * Encounters with Native American tribes
 * Accidental death
 * Through the Moutains – Fort Laramie Wyoming to Fort Hall Idaho: **
 * Fort Larami
 * The scourge of Cholera
 * Problems of trail overcrowding
 * The great trek of the Mormon pioneers
 * Difficulties faced in the mountains
 * Cutoffs and alternate routes
 * Arrival at Oregon/California – Ft Hall to End **<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">:
 * <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Role of the British
 * <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">49ers on the Oregon Trail
 * <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Indian hostilities in the Trail's later years
 * <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Importance of the Trail

Song from South Paris Collaborative Elementary School

Oregon Trail Search Engine

http://americanhistory.pppst.com/oregontrail.html

[| Provisions for the Trail.doc] [| Buffalo.doc] [| Camping.doc] [| Doctors and Diseases on the Oregon Trail.doc] [| Each wagon family needs to complete the following steps during Week 1 of.doc] [| Everyday Life.doc] [| Fuel and Fire.doc] [| Granny Medicine.doc] [| Hardships.doc] [| Introduction.doc] [| Jumping Off.doc] [| Native Americans.doc] [| Oregon Trail 101.doc] [| Outfitting for the Trail.doc] [| Power.doc] [| Prairie Schooners.doc] [| Provisions.doc] [| Slavery in the Oregon Country.doc] [| Supply List.xls] [| The Covered Wagon.doc] [| The Route West.doc] [| Water.doc] [| Women on the Oregon Trail.doc]