Book Creator | Westward Expansion

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Westward

Expansion

Choose 3 activities from the Choice Board to do this week ➳

You will do two independently, and collaborate with a partner on the third. If you have time, you may collaborate with a partner on a fourth activity

Westward Expansion Choice Board

Venn Diagram

Newspaper Ad

Compare and contrast the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies by developing a Venn diagram

Develop an ad for a local newspaper, encouraging people to move West

Fact or Opinion?

Thinking of the Forty-Niners sort statements as facts or opinions, creating ten of your own statements

Comic Strip

Map

Label each region on the map with the historical event and year that formed part of the Westward Expansion of the US

Timeline

Design a comic strip to illustrate the challenges pioneers faced when travelling West

Develop a timeline for the unit, doing research on MackinVia Databases

Quiz

Video Diary

Write a 10 question quiz about Western Expansion

Debate

Record a Video Diary Entry from the point of view of a homesteader or exoduser

Stage a fictional conversation between Abraham Lincoln and President Polk, debating the merits of the Mexican-American War

Venn Diagram

Compare and contrast the companies. Include at least 3 points in each section

Central Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

Newspaper Ad

Design a newspaper ad encouraging people to move West. Use drawings, images, text and even audio or video if you imagine it being an online newspaper (which of course didn't exist at the time!)

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Fact or Opinion?

Sort the statements below into FACT or OPINION. Write five more facts and five more opinions, placing them on the appropriate side of the page

Facts

Opinions

◆ Robert Fulton invented the steamboat

◆ Only foolish people rushed to find gold in California

◆ Samuel Morse was a smart man

◆ Add your fact/opinion here, then copy and paste to repeat

Strip

Comic

Design a comic strip with at least 5 sections that illustrates the challenges pioneers faced when travelling West.

Select Comics from the ⊕ menu, to change the panel layout or add other elements

Map

Westward Expansion of the United States, 1607 to 1853

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Label each region on the map with the historical event (and year) that formed part of the Westward Expansion of the United States