Description

History Pockets-Moving West, Grades 4 - 6, contains ten discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the westward movement. The other pockets feature nine adventurous groups of people who took part in the westward movement.

Each of the pockets contains:

a reproducible pocket label
a bookmark of short, fun facts about the subject
a fact sheet of background information for teacher and students
arts and crafts projects
writing activities

Evaluation forms are provided at the end of the book for teacher and student assessment purposes.

The book includes the following pockets:

Introduction to Moving West
The New Frontier
Exploring the Wilderness
Missionaries at Work
On the Oregon Trail
The Native American Struggle
Settling the Far West
The Gold Rush
Homesteading the Great Plains
Building the Railroads

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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