The Oregon Trail lesson plan
The Oregon Trail In the car on the way to the library, when discussing various specialty license plates available in Oregon, Ellie's curiosity was sparked by the Oregon Trail plates. So in homeschooler fashion, we checked out some books about the Oregon Trail including: Daily Life in a Covered Wagon and Buffalo Gals And I remembered I had Bound for Oregon at home already. Quote from Scholastic Book website: "Nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd, filled with the pioneer spirit, treks cross country in 1852 with her family in search of a better life. The Todds survive Indians and swoll en rivers, but what will happen when mother has a new baby and winter arrives?" So we looked at some pages of Daily Life and read a bit about the example family. Then we started reading Bound for Oregon. This helped to get some pictures in our minds of what exactly the wagons looked like and we even referred back to the Daily Life