Timelines

A timeline activity gave students a chronological framework for the Oregon Trail. They sketched simple drawings of important events from the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 to the War of 1812 to the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the great cholera epidemic of the 1830s. They read a short article on why people […]

Load your wagons!

Click here for a link to the Girl’s Leadership Institute Click here for information about a Pt. Reyes Life at the Beach program from Jeanine. Students have begun loading their prairie schooners for the Oregon Trail. Each child has created a diary, taken on a pseudonym, and today collaborated with “family” members to purchase supplies […]