Tag: Westward expansion
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You’ve died of dysentery, the Oregon Trail Card Game
I’ve gone on record before as loving the Oregon Trail computer game. I spent many happy hours of my childhood trying to cross that trail, and like many other kids my age would groan in pain reading the words, “You’ve died of dysentery.” When I heard there was an Oregon Trail card game, I knew…
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Oregon Trail Book list
When I was in college, Scholastic started an amazing book series called Dear America (it’s on my History Books to read list). One of my favorite books from that series was an Oregon Trail diary, and it’s one of the books I kept to give my future child to read someday. My daughter is slowly…
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John Deere lesson
Growing up you always knew what a John Deere tractor was. They were green and yellow, and were the sight I associated with farmers. As we work our way through United States geography, I’m sometimes surprised by where people are from. Since John Deere is so clearly associated with tractors and farming, I assumed he…
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The Battle of the Alamo
When you think of Texas, nothing is more iconic than the Alamo. It became the battle cry of the Texas Revolution, “Remember the Alamo!” It’s a major tourist attraction, and when we reached the Battle of the Alamo in our history lessons as we cover US history, I knew we had to do a Battle…
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What will you pack in your covered wagon?
Pack a covered wagon activity Okay, even more future Ticia 2022, I updated this in 2017, and while this is truly more of a history lesson for US history, I originally made this into a great geography lesson for our Ohio Unit. While I could just jump right into the post, instead I’m going to…