Jumping Off to the Oregon Trail
Fourth Grade
Download PDF with tour information - Kansas Standards
 Shawnee
Indian Mission in Fairway is providing an opportunity for you to combine
Kansas and Missouri standards with a unique educational experience!
This two-hour tour will take place at Shawnee Indian Mission. The tour
enables students to use primary source documents to become familiar
with the Oregon-California Trail. In addition to learning about the
trails, students will participate in loading and pulling their "wagon"
with supplies, playing a pioneer game, and autographing "Independence
Rock."
Students will be divided into six groups or "families," which
will practice decision-making skills as they choose the items to take
on the trail. Throughout the tour they will read diary entries from
these emigrants, which will give students an understanding of the hardships
and benefits of the move west.
This tour fulfills grade specific standards and provides pre- and post-visit
materials to help teachers address those standards.
Kansas Standards
History
Benchmark 1, Indicator 4: The student describes how communication
and transportation systems connect Kansas to other regions, past and
present (e.g., trails, Pony Express, telegraph, steamboats, railroad
lines, highway systems, air transportation, Internet).
Benchmark 1, Indicator 5: The student compares and contrasts the purposes
of the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails (e.g., commercial vs. migration).
Benchmark 1, Indicator 6: The student describes life on the Santa
Fe and Oregon-California Trails (e.g., interactions between different
cultural groups, hardships such as lack of water, mountains and rivers
to cross, weather, need for medical care, size of wagon).
Economics
Benchmark 1, Indicator 1: The student knows that every spending and
saving decision has an opportunity cost.
Benchmark 1, Benchmark 5: The student analyzes the costs and benefits
of making a choice.
Literature
Benchmark 2, Indicator 3: The student makes connections between specific
aspects of literature from a variety of cultures and personal experiences.
Writing
Benchmark 1, Indicator 1: The student chooses and writes about a narrowed
and focused idea and occasionally writes about a given prompt. (Ideas
and Content: prewriting, drafting, revising: N,E,T).
Mathematics
Standard 1, Benchmark 4: Computation – The student computes
with efficiency and accuracy using various computational methods including
mental math, paper and pencil, concrete materials, and appropriate technology
.
Missouri Standards
Social Studies Standards
SS 2 continuity and change in the history of Missouri, the United States and the world
SS 4 economic concepts (including productivity and the market system) and principles (including the laws of supply and demand)
SS 5 the major elements of geographical study and analysis (such as location, place, movement, regions) and their relationships to changes in society and environment
SS 7 the use of tools of social science inquiry (such as surveys, statistics, maps, documents)
Communications Standards
CA 3 reading and evaluating nonfiction works and material
CA 4 writing formally and informally
CA 6 participating in formal and informal presentations and discussions of issues and ideas
Performance Standards
Goal 3 - 3.8 assess costs, benefits, and other consequences of proposed solutions
Goal 4 - 4.6 identify tasks that require a coordinated effort and work with others to complete those tasks
Filled with Multiple Intelligences
Verbal-linguistic
Kinesthetic
Intrapersonal
Logical-mathematical
Interpersonal
Naturalist
Length of tour: approximately
two hours.
Cost: $2 per participant
Number of students in a group: For
the best experience, we recommend no more than 30 students per
tour.
For registration and scheduling: Contact
Anita Faddis, site administrator, 913-262-0867; shawneemission@kshs.org.
A minimum of two weeks advance registration is needed. |
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