Students trace the colonization, immigration, and settlement patterns of the American people from 1789 to the mid-1800s, with emphasis on the role of economic incentives, effects of the physical and political geography and transportation systems.
von Roxanne Margiotta
1. Students will reflect on the hardships faced by settlers on their journey.
1.1. Students will be assigned the role of a newspaper reporter. Their next article will be to inquire about people's experiences immigrating to the West.
2. Students will imagine what it would be like to live life on the trail.
2.1. Students will take on the role of a travel agent. Their role will be to create a travel brochure encouraging people to move out west.
3. Students will identify the routes settlers took to cross the country.
3.1. Taking on the role of a travel agent, students will plan passage from one of the original 13 colonies to Oregon.
4. Students will illustrate the landscape barriers.
4.1. Students will imagine they are a member of the Louis and Clark Expedition. They will be assigned the role of drawing the countryside for President Jefferson.
5. students will name the states established during the mid-1800s.
5.1. Students will create a map detailing the boundaries of the existing states during the mid-1800s.
