Oregon trail party

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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!

I have to admit, I was a little worried about Lydia’s 6th birthday party. Little House on the Prairie parties

Time to get nostalgic! Remember when The Internet Archive brought hundreds upon hundreds of classic console games online and made them playable in the

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.

Earlier today I came up with this blog post idea while reading THIS article about a museum in Portland that offers guests the opportunity to play a REAL LIFE game of the Oregon Trail. For those of you that don’t know, the Oregon Trail was one of my FAVORITE things about the middle school computer lab. The object of the game was to guide your covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon – while hunting for food and avoiding scary diseases like typhoid. You can still play the game online here. Like I…

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 […]

If you were in elementary school in the United States any time in the past, oh I don’t know, 40 years, you probably played the Oregon Trail computer game. The most old school version looked s…