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I was in my wife’s classroom on Saturday helping her turn her tables into “Covered Wagons.” She is reading the book- Patty Reed’s Doll: The Story of the Donner Party by Rachel K. Laurgaard in her 4th grade class. In a few weeks they will go on a trip to Donner State Park and visit the actual site […]

Turn your classroom into a wagon train as you travel west on the Oregon Trail. Create fun and engaging ABC books to learn how the pioneers moved west!

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Good news for all you 80s and 90s kids out there. According to the Washington Post about 2,400 MS-DOS games are now available for play on the Internet Archive. For some of us, this undoubtedly means trying to beat The Oregon Trail and not “die of dysentery” along the way. This isn’t the first time some […]

Spoiler: You might still bring some of these foods on a road trip.

Make Oregon Trail History come alive for kids by making a salt dough map, a covered wagon craft, DIY crackers, and more in this westward expansion lesson.

Who were the 400,000 American settlers who made the journey from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon and California on the Oregon Trail? Was it safer for them to caulk the wagon or to ford the river? And just how many died of dysentery?

Teaching About The Oregon Trail - Journey of a Substitute Teacher