*(Easy)

Dagliesch, Alice; The Courage of Sarah Noble

Edmonds, Walter; The Matchlock Gun

Fritz, Jean; Make Way for Sam Houston

Kellogg, Steven; Paul Bunyan

Van Steewyck, Elizabeth; My Name is York acct. of slave accompanying Lewis and Clark

Jakes, John; Susanna of the Alamo: A True Story
 

*(Average)

Anderson, Joan; Pioneer Children of Appalachia

Blassingame, Wyatt; Jim Beckwourth: Black Trapper and Indian Chief

Blumberg, Rhoda; White, Alana; Sacajaweas: Westward with Lewis and Clark

Blumberg, Rhoda; What's the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase

Brink, Carol; Caddie Woodlawn a slightly later time period, but pertinent

Brown, Marion; Sacagawea

Byars, Betsy; Trouble River

Cain, Wilma; Story of Transportation

Cox, Clinton; The Forgotten Heroes

D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar; Abraham Lincoln

Fisher, Leonard; The Oregon Trail

Fisher, Leonard; The Alamo

Fleischman, Sid; Humbug Mountain

Freedman, Russell; Buffalo Hunt

Freedman, Russell; Indian Chiefs 

Freedman, Russell; Cowboys of the Wild West

Gintzler, A.S.;  Rough and Ready Cowboys 

Gintzler, A.S.; Rough and Ready Homesteaders

Gintzler, A.S.; Rough and Ready Outlaws and Lawmen 

Goble, Paul; Death of the Iron Horse

Hilton, Suzanne; Getting There: Frontier Travel Without Power

Holling, Holling; Tree in the Trail out of print classic

Hiotze, Sollace; A Circle Unbroken

Josephy, Alvin; The Patriotic Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance

Keats, Ezra; John Henry

Lavendar, David; The Santa Fe Trail

Lavendar, David; Snowbound  Donner Party

Levine, Ellen; If You Travelled West in a Covered Wagon

MacLachlan, Patricia; Sarah, Plain and Tall

Pelz, Ruth; Black Heroes of the WIld West

Meadowcroft, Enid; By Wagon and Flatboat

Morrow, Honore; On to Oregon orphans on the trail

Petersen, David; Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 

Sabin, Lewis; Jim Beckwourth: Adventures of a Mountain Man

Shub, Elizabeth; The White Stallion wagon train H/F

Sloane, Eric; Diary of an Early American Boy

Smith, T.H.; Cry to the Night WInd

Spier, Peter; The Erie Canal

Stanford, Wm. and Green, Carl; Zebulon Pike, Explorer of the Southwest

Retan, Walter; The Story of Daniel Boone

Steele, Wm.; Daniel Boone's Echo out of print

Stotter, Mike; Wild West: Cowboys, American Indians, Pioneers, Outlaws

Toynton, Evelyn; Growing Up in America: 1830-1860

Turner, Ann; Grasshopper Summer

Turner, Ann; The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, A Navajo Girl

Warren, Andrea; Orphan Train Rider

Wilder, Laura Ingalls; Little House on the Prairie (one of eight related works by this author)
 

*(Challenging)

Daugherty, James; Daniel Boone out of print

Moeri, Louise; Save Queen of Sheba
 

*(Read-Alouds)

Blair, Walter; Tall Tale America

Harvey, Brett; My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted

Rounds, Glen; Ol Paul, The Mighty Logger

Stoutenberg, Adrien; American Tall Tales

West, Jessamyn; "Song of the Settlers" in Favorite Poems Old and New Ferris, Helen, edit.
 

*(Resource)

The Diane Goode Book of American Folk Tales and Songs

Freedman, Russell; Children of the Wild West

Hill, Wm.; The Oregon Trail Yesterday, Today, and Today

Parkman, Francis; The Oregon Trail

Stoutenberg, Adrien; American Tall Tales

Tunis, Edward; Frontier Living

Walker, Barbara; The Little House Cookbook
 

Video:

Caddie Woodlawn EMC#884152 (104 mins)

Covered Wagons and Westward Expansion EMC#886245 (26 mins)

Cumberland Gap: The Wilderness Trail EMC#886010 (11 mins)

Frontier Experience EMC#881918  (25 mins) dated

Gone West: The Growth of a Nation EMC#886246 (28 mins)

Lewis and Clark EMC#883939 (15 mins)

The Lewis and Clark Expedition EMC#885426 (20 mins)

Life in America 1800 EMC#885578

Mountain Men and Gold Seekers EMC#886244 (27 mins)

Old Sturbridge Village EMC#883111 (30 mins) a time capsule of the period 

Opening of the American West EMC#885427 (36 mins)

Oregon Trail EMC#881651 (32 mins)

The Oregon Trail EMC#886009 (50 mins)

Pioneer Journey Across the Appalachians EMC#880403 (14 mins)

Pioneer Life EMC#880324 (29 mins)

Pioneer Living Series (a little dated: 1971)

    Education and Recreation EMC#886038
    Home Crafts EMC#886040
    Preparing Foods EMC#886041
    The Farm EMC#886039
    The Village EMC#886037 

Sarah, Plain and Tall - Hallmark

Santa Fe Trail EMC#885428 (22 mins)

Settling the Great Plains EMC#885300 (16 mins)

Settling the Old Northwest EMC#883561 (18 mins)

Settling the Oregon Territory EMC#883562 (18 mins)

Stagecoach Westward EMC#885278 (13 mins)

Texas  EMC#881755 (15 mins)

Texas and the Mexican Cession  EMC#883563 (14 mins)

Westward Expansion I  EMC#880325  (24 mins)

Westward Expansion II   EMC#880326 (25 mins)

Westward Expansion: The Pioneer Challenge  EMC#883889 (25 mins)

Westward Wagons  EMC#882426 (24 mins)

Yuma Crossing  EMC#883320 (28 mins)
 

Software:

Oregon Trail  The Learning Company
 

Internet:

http://www.nationalgeographic.
com/lewisclark/index.html
Lewis and Clark

http://www.nationalgeographic.
com/west/index.html
Game version of above site

http://pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/

http://pbs.org/trailofhope

http://hoover.nara.gov/
kids/index.html 
Good site for integrating 
Laura Ingalls Wilder literature

http://www.osv.org 
Model of late 1800's 
community, if not on 
the frontier

Settling the Old Northwest (Settlement of the United States Series). Encyclopedia Britanica Educational Corporation,
 1990 (Video). 
This program examines the conflicts between the people in the land between the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Segments (a) locate the region, (b) review the
reasons for westward expansion, (c) detail what is occurring in the rest of the country, (d) identify the native Americans of the area, (e) show how leaders fought to maintain control of the land, and (f) discuss the treaties, wars, and settlements that helped the United States grow from coast to coast. This production uses reenactments, animation, maps, and graphics to chronicle the settlement of this section of the United States.

http://www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/
academy/ace/soc/elem.html

gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/
Educational_Resources/Lesson_Plans/
Big%20Sky/social_studies

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/

http://www.mcrel.org/
connect/plus

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/
Lessons/crossroads

http://talk.startribune.com/
cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?homework-
14@@.ee6b2b9
homework help

http://www.hmco.com/
hmco/school/search/
activity.html 
*Houghton Mifflin

http://www.mcrel.org/
connect/lesson.html#social

http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
Classroom/Social_Studies/
Social_Studies.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.
com/resources/ngo/education/
ideas.html

http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/SCORE/

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ 
*Houghton Mifflin supplemental games, quizes maps

http://www.socialstudies.com/
index.html

http://www.mmhschool.com/
teach/socialstud/socstu1.html

1.) Students work in teams to plan and develop a report on one of the trails west. Report should include:

2.) Students can either write a report or create a journal/diary of a fictional character which includes all of the above information.

3.) As a class, students will produce a map display showing the major trails, the various transportation routes, the state and territory boundaries in 1850, and the areas of Mexican territories in the far west

Teacher assesses teams on the accurateness and authenticity of their report and map. Did it cover the original territories, locations and terrain?

Students write an essay on the migration west explaining why people moved, hardships faced, and the influence of the terrain on the trails people took.

Essay is to be scored using a rubric.

4 Points:

· Shows thorough understanding of content 

· Exhibits outstanding insight/creativity 

· Communicates ideas clearly and effectively

3 Points:

· Shows adequate understanding of content + exhibits reasonable insight/creativity 

.Communicates most ideas clearly/effectively

2 Points:

· Shows partial understanding of content · exhibits limited insight/creativity 

· Communicates a few ideas clearly

1 Point:

. Shows little or no understanding of content 

. Does not exhibit insight/creativity