Covered Wagons Bumpy Trails

Science: Weather, taking data, using a thermometer. 

Language Arts: Keeping a journal, using research to write a story, developing a character.

Math: Figuring volume, adding, estimating weight and volume.

History: Westward immigration, pioneers, the emigrant trails.

Iron Horses

Geography: Use a map.

Fine Arts: Use various media, relationship between art and text in Picture Books.

Science/ Geography:  Climatic regions.

Math: Using fractions and decimals, adding columns.

Science: How a steam engine works.

History:  The impact of the transcontinental railroad, various peoples who built the railroad.

Broken Feather

History: Read primary source material, U.S./Indian relations, westward migrations, reservations and Indian schools.

Language Arts: Listen to and retell a story, conduct an interview, report on what you learned, read for information, relate reading to personal experience.

Homespun Sarah

History: Colonial life.

Fine Arts: Weaving, pattern, and texture.

Math: Graphing, displaying data, measuring, mean, median, estimation, predicting patterns.

Gold Fever

Geography: Reading a map, following directions.

Fine Arts: Using different media.

Language Arts: Developing characters, reading and writing labels.

History: Creation of boom and ghost towns, peoples of the Gold Rush.

Tattered Sails

Language Arts:  Reading and following directions. 

Orphan Train

Social Studies/History: Industrial Revolution, urban growth, comparing community services today to those in the past.