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Showing 33 results for Oregon Territory ...
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Do your students have what it takes to make it to Oregon? In this fun activity, students will pack their wagons for the journey west along the Oregon Trail through Nebraska and beyond. As they make their way west, we will look at maps to gauge progress and discuss the features that determined the route of the trail and the hardships that emigrants would have encountered.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson is designed to review the purpose of the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. The students will also expand their knowledge of each trail and put a plan together for a trip on each trail. This plan will include a packing list for their wagons. The students will use primary sources to help form their plans and packing list.
Homestead National Historical Park
Territorial Ranges
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In the "Territorial Ranges" activity, students will look at the first Americans and why they moved.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Overview: This lesson can be used in conjunction with either the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, or else there are materials and resources that can be used in the classroom. Includes anticipation guides, primary sources describing packed items, and supply list worksheets.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan includes mapmaking, class discussions, image and writing analysis. Students have the opportunity to learn about the Mormon Pioneer and Oregon Trail through the NebraskaStudies.org site. Here, they will be able to access primary and secondary source documents, as well as a timeline of events on the trail.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Guided Tour of the McLoughlin House
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The retirement home of Dr. John McLoughlin aids the National Park Service in preserving the history of our nation by sharing the personal story of a powerful businessman and his family. This family's story intersects with many pivotal moments in the Oregon Country/Columbia District.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Guided Tour of HBC Fort Vancouver
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The classic Fort Vancouver Field Trip experience! Classes, teamed up with a guide, participate in an interactive walking tour inside the reconstructed HBC Fort Vancouver.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
STUDENT OBJECTIVES 1. Collaborate with peers by synthesizing and analyzing research on the National Historic Trails 2. Design effective presentation using appropriate gestures and speaking skills 3. Discuss the pathways and perspectives of traders, emigrants, Spanish and Indian Americans 4. Examine the stories of nine national historic trails 5. Create a presentation that demonstrates synthesis and higher level analysis 6. Present findings about the trails to the rest of the class
Mount Rainier National Park
A String of Volcanoes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students research information about Cascade volcanoes in Washington, Oregon, and California, then transfer the information onto the appropriate mobile piece before constructing the mobile "A String of Volcanoes".
Gateway Arch National Park
Heading West? (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This distance learning program introduces k-2 students to some of the challenges and choices early pioneers faced while traveling west across prairies, rivers, and mountains from St. Louis to Oregon and California.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Follow a trail of discovery to the Pacific Northwest. Although the corps' findings destroyed the dream of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, their accomplishments had far reaching effects in expanding human knowledge and opening a new course for American history.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Democracy Run Wild: Distance Learning Program
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
During Bleeding Kansas, conflicts at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of government divided a town, a territory and an entire nation as people from all sides of the spectrum joined in a struggle for freedom in Kansas Territory.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Your Day in Court: Bleeding Kansas Courtroom Program
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Is it fair to make decisions based on biased laws? This program recreates a court case that was tried at Fort Scott in the 1850s, The issue involved a land squabble between two men on opposite sides of the political spectrum. The court was left to decide the issue based on territorial law that favored the proslavery side based on the fact that proslavery men held the majority in the territorial legislature and decided territorial law in their favor.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Homeland Heritage Corridor
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Explore Cayuse culture by listening to primary sources from the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Homeland Heritage Corridor audio. The CD is currently available through the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute. Hear stories and history from modern day Cayuse people while considering the values that have guided Cayuse people through millennia. Students will need to practice critical listening skills and form their own analysis based on what they hear.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Chaos in Early Kansas Elections
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
People of Kansas Territory could decide by popular vote whether or not to have slavery or not when they entered the Union. Both sides sent settlers to Kansas to sway the outcome of this decision. Chaos ensued.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This lesson plan compares and contrasts the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands, identifying different tribes territories on maps, and explaining the ways the climate regions influenced Upper Missouri Plains Indian culture in North Dakota.
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
It's Not My Fault!
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through this activity packet, students will use point of view and historical perspective to make connections to American history and geography in the Old Northwest Territory. Students will learn about the War of 1812 and study personal stories of the Battles of the River Raisin.
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
A Soldier's Notes From Michigan's Big Battle
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Territory during the War of 1812 in Monroe, MI. This lesson will explore maps and primary sources to understand the significance of the battlefields. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer the question: Why should River Raisin and other War of 1812 battlefields be preserved and protected?
Friendship Hill National Historic Site
Albert Gallatin a Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and the Louisiana Purchase - Lesson 3
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson the students will use a student reading to learn about the Louisiana Purchase. Then using an activity sheet the students will write why the Louisiana Purchase would benefit the United States and how they would act if they were in the dilemma that the minister to France was in when he was offered the Louisiana Territory.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
North American Indian Migration into North Dakota
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the Great Plains and the Central Lowlands. Then, students will identify different tribal territories on maps. By the end of the lesson, students will answer the following essential question: How did the different climate regions of North Dakota influence Indian cultures in those regions?