Filter Your Results
- Lesson Plan (7)
- Traveling Trunk (2)
- Field Trips (1)
- Guest Speakers (1)
- Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (3)
- Oregon National Historic Trail (3)
- Fort Necessity National Battlefield (2)
- Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (1)
- California National Historic Trail (1)
- Fort Larned National Historic Site (1)
- Ninety Six National Historic Site (1)
- Santa Fe National Historic Trail (1)
- Scotts Bluff National Monument (1)
- Social Studies (10)
- Science (1)
- 3.RI.1 (2)
- 3.RI.2 (2)
- 3.RI.3 (2)
- 3.RI.7 (2)
- 3.W.1 (2)
- 3.W.2 (2)
- 6-8.WHST.1 (2)
- 6-8.WHST.2 (2)
- 3.L.4 (1)
- Show More ...
Showing 11 results for wagoner ...
- 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.
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Traveling the Great Wagon Road
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Educational board game to teach about migration along the Great Wagon Road during the 1700s.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Chuckwagon Flip the Story
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The chuck wagon was an essential part of the success of cattle ranching in the American West. Chuck wagons were the mobile kitchens, a headquarters for communications between members of the unit, and the “house” for cowboys to return to for meals and sleeping while on cattle drives and roundups. The cook, or “cookie,” oversaw the wagon and all the necessities of life which the wagon provided to the cowboys. In this lesson, students will explore information about the cook and the various jobs
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Experience Grant-Kohrs Ranch
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Programs may be available on topics such as pioneer life, the Open Range cattle era, the cowboy, the chuck wagon, blacksmithing, livestock and much more.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
A Long Way to Santa Fe
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
What's it like to travel the Santa Fe Trail on a wagon train? Robert Earl would say it's long periods of boredom with a few moments of excitement. Follow his story to find out about his adventures traveling with his father on the Santa Fe Trail.
- 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.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Juan's Draft Pick Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Whether by pulling a wagon, cart, or saddle bag, animals powered the goods to be traded and transferred to their destination. The fur trade era simply could not have taken place without the aid of horses, mules, and oxen. The lesson examines the pros and cons of using these animals as transportation based on their characteristics and biological needs.
- 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.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Traveling the National Road: Unit 3 Travelers and Transportation on the National Road
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit covers travelers and transportation on the National Road, teaching the students what types of vehicles traveled the road and what it was like to travel. It includes background information for the teacher, two student reading and two student activities: Stagecoach and Conestoga Wagon Coloring Sheet and Traveler’s Tools. One of the student readings is a journal of an emigrant family.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Who Was a Blacksmith?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The blacksmith was an essential member of a 19th century community. Before there were factories to make iron tools and objects, the blacksmith filled this role. To become a blacksmith involved years as an apprentice and hard work learning the skills needed to build, fix or repair things made from iron. Blacksmiths worked on the metal rims for wheels on wagons, tools, and other items used in homes or on equipment. After 1900, the profession of blacksmithing declined as factories filled this need.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Traveling the National Road: Unit 8 Occupation Cards
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This unit introduces the students to 14 people in occupations associated with the National Road through occupation cards that are for the students to read. Many people worked along the National Road, transporting, feeding and caring for travelers. The reason for travel also varied. These occupation cards allow the students to discover what types of people worked and traveled the National Road. Each National Road occupation is associated with a biography card from the previous section.