1	Westward Expansion Web Quest
2	Introduction It's the 1800's. As people of the United States, it is our MISSION to extend the "boundaries of freedom," it is our DESTINY to expand WEST, it is our MANIFEST DESTINY! The Frontier beckons with the promise of riches and a new life, so you have decided to leave the East behind and GO WEST!
3	Task You will pick one of the roles below for your Westward Expansion project (click each role to review your choices): Role 1: An explorer with Lewis and Clark Role 2: A prospector Role 3: A pioneer Role 4: A Native American Role 5: A Railroad Builder To show what you have learned, you will produce one of the projects listed below: Comic Book Story Using Comic Life Newspaper Colorado Travel Scrapbook Timeline and Slide show using Inspiration and Powerpoint 5. Daily Journal 6. Jeopardy Game 7. Challenge Project: An imovie that tells your story (*see Mrs. Hoins) In addition, each student must: Make a map of their route, and Create a list of items to take on the journey Extra Credit: Create a Traveling Song For Your Trip
4	Process I Follow the steps outlined below to complete your Westward Expansion project. 1. Start by looking at all the information on this Web Quest from the links on the Home Page. 2. Read and understand the TASK and start thinking about what kind of project you would like to produce. 3. Decide on a role: explorer with Lewis and Clark; pioneer; prospector. 4. After picking your role, begin researching your role, paying particular attention to the questions listed on the Role page. Come up with some of your own questions. Use the web site links that have been listed for you, and go find books in the library that have also been listed. 5. Use the United Streaming web site to view videos about Westward Expansion. 6. Take notes. Take lots and lots of notes. Pay particular attention to things that sound unusual or amazing as this will end up being good material for your project. Make sure your notes answer essential questions. Use the column notes Mrs. Hoins provides (hint: organize your column notes next to each of your essential questions). 7. Make sure you keep track of all the places (web sites, books, videos, etc.,) where you collect information. You will be required to cite these sources as part of your project. Use the source pages that Mrs. Hoins provides.
5	Process II 8. Get started on your project: If you choose the Comic Book, you will need to tell the story of Westward Movement through dialogue and information in a comic using Comic Life. You should develop 3-5 pages and include facts and dates in order of their occurrence in history. If you choose the Newspaper, you will need to write 4 to 6 articles and accompany each article with a picture. Use all your creativity to make it look authentic to the 1800's. You will want to research what newspapers looked like back then. You can even include advertising appropriate to the time. You can do the project by hand, however, if you use the computer, you will be able to make it look much more professional. If you choose a Colorado Scrapbook, you will need to collect facts on the state of Colorado and write at least 3 paragraphs on history, your move to Colorado, and important things residents should know. This project can be displayed in a scrapbook or poster format. If you choose the Timeline/Slide Show, you will have to organize your research and tell your story in timeline form. You can build a timeline in Inspiration and then create links to a slide show with a picture and 3 bullet points for each event. You will need to create at least 10 slides. If you choose the Daily Journal, you can use your imagination, along with the facts you have gathered, to write about what it really feels like to make the journey West. Here, you will be able to give details of daily struggles and triumphs. You will need to write at least 10 journal entries. You can hand illustrate your journal entries or use a Power Point to create a mini journal on the computer. If you choose a Jeopardy Game, you will collect important historical facts and details to create a Westward Expansion Jeopardy Game in Power Point to be played by your classmates. You will need at least 5 categories with 3-5 questions in each category. Answers will contain a photo. If you choose a challenge project, you need to have this approved by your teacher. 9. Cite every source! Use the format Mrs. Hoins provides to record the information on your sources. Be sure to include the website address for photos that you copy from Internet sites. This is extremely important!
6	Assessment Rubric
7	Role 1: Explorer with Lewis and Clark It's May of 1804 and you are one of 45 men selected to travel with Lewis and Clark to explore the land from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. President Thomas Jefferson has asked your group to report on the plants, animals, people (Native Americans) and geography of the land. Use the resources below to research your journey. Things you might want to consider in your research are: 1. Why did you join the expedition? 2. What items and supplies did you take with you? 3. What mode of transportation did you use? 4. What route did you follow and why? 5. What obstacles and hardships did you face along the way? 6. How did you deal with the Native people? 7. What did you find when you got there? To Website Links page
8	Role 2: A Prospector It's 1849 and the California gold rush has swept the country, and the world. You dream of a better life, which you think you can get quickly if you find gold. People are getting rich from the gold they are finding in the American River. You want to be a part of this -- and so do 50,000 others from all over the world! In just 7 years, California's population rose from 800 to 55,000 people, all because of the GOLD RUSH. Only 1 in every thousand prospectors actually became rich during the California gold rush -- will you be one of the few? Use the resources below to research your journey and your experiences in California. Things you might want to consider in your research are: 1. What were your reasons for heading West? 2. What items and supplies did you take with you? 3. What mode of transportation did you use? 4. What route did you follow and why? 5. What obstacles and hardships did you face along the way? 6. How did you deal with the Native people? 7. What did you find when you got there? 8. What tools did you use to mine or pan for gold?
9	Role 3: A Pioneer It's 1840 and you need a new start. With the country's expansion West, you hear of riches and opportunity beyond anything you have experienced back here in the East. You decide to pack up the whole family and head West. You are a pioneer, willing to work the land and start a new life. Use the resources below to research your journey. Things you might want to consider in your research are: 1. What were your reasons for heading West? 2. What items and supplies did you take with you? 3. What mode of transportation did you use? 4. What route did you follow and why? 5. What obstacles and hardships did you face along the way? 6. How did you deal with the Native people? 7. What did you find when you got there? To Website Links Page
10	Role 4: A Native American It is the late 1830’s. You are one of the 17,000 Cherokees that are being forced to leave your sacred homelands of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, and march to the Indian Territory in the West. As you move from your home, what experiences do you have? Explore the feelings, emotions, and changes that you go through as you are moved from your home. Things you might want to consider in your research are: 1. Who is your leader on this journey? 2. What do you take with you? What do you need that you do not have? 3. Why do you have to leave your sacred homeland? 4. What did Sequoyah invent? Why was it important? 5. What treaty was signed that forced your move? 6. What was the legend of the Cherokee Rose? 7. How many Cherokee’s died on the trail west? Why did they die? 8. What was waiting for you once you reached the West? 9. What geography, land features and natural resources did you come across along the way and how was this different from home? 10. What types of interactions did you have with white people? 11. What is your new home like? To Website Links
11	Role 5: A Railroad Builder It’s 1863 and construction has begun on a transcontinental, or coast-to-coast, railroad in order to connect the east to the west. Many soldiers who had fought in the Civil War and many Chinese and Irish immigrants are building the rail system. You are one of these railroad builders and you’ve joined one of the two companies who are competing to lay down the track (whoever lays more track gets more money and more land from the government). The Central Pacific is starting from California to build from the east, while the Union Pacific is starting from Nebraska (where the eastern railroad lines left off) and building west. As you work to connect the east and west in Promontory, Utah, you experience the geography of the land, natural resources, Native Americans, pioneers, and prospectors heading west. Things you might want to consider in your research are: 1. Why did you get hired to work for the railroad company? 2. What items and supplies did you take with you? 3. What were the working conditions and what were your responsibilities? 4. What type of geography and landscapes did you travel through and what did you notice about the landforms, natural resources, and animals of these areas? 5. What interactions with people did you experience along the way? 6. What obstacles and hardships did you face along the way? 7. What was it like to make it to Promontory, Utah? 8. Why do you think we build a railroad and who did it benefit? *This is a challenge role. For your internet research, you will use http://www.answers.com, http://www.worldbookonline.com, http://www.factmonster.com, as well as reputable sources you discover on your own.
12	References and Resources To Historical Fiction Booklist… To Reports of Information… To Website Links… Ask your teacher to view United Streaming Video for further research and information collection.
13	Historical Fiction Booklist 5th/6th Grade Books: Calico Bush by Rachel Field Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs 5th Grade Books: By the Great Horn Spoon! By Sid Fleischman Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink Dear Levi by Elvira Woodruff Dog of Discovery by Laurence Pringle Lewis and Cark by George Sullivan Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Mr. Tucket by Gary Paulsen The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz 4th Grade Books: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell by Kristiana Gregory In Plain Sight by Carol Otis Hurst If you Traveled West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 3rd/4th Grade Books: Gold Fever by Catherine McMorrow The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner
14	Reports of Information The Telluride School District Libraries contain: Encyclopedias Atlases Nonfiction History Books on Westward Movement, Pioneers, Prospectors, Explorers, Native Americans, and the Transcontinental Railroad Contact your teacher for additional Historical Fiction books
15	Website Links Links Disclaimer: The links in this Web Quest will let you leave the district controlled web site. The linked sites are not under the control of the district and the district is not responsible for the contents of any linked sites, or any links contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The district is providing these links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the site by the district. Lewis and Clark Websites Pioneer Websites Prospector Websites Native American Websites Railroad Builder Websites Note: Click the pictures from each website list to get back to the role descriptions and questions. Don’t forget about these cool website tools: http://www.answers.com http://www.factmonster.com
16	Lewis and Clark Websites http://www.worldbookonline.com http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/index.html http://www.usaweekend.com/97_issues/971102/lewis_and_clark/971102trail_intro.html http://www.lewis-clark.org/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/ http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/101.htm http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/expansion_museum.html
17	Pioneer Websites http://www.worldbookonline.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/main.html http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/wagons.html http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/ http://www.historyglobe.com/ot/otmap1.htm http://www.geocities.com/cbmshistory/Oregontrail/OregonTrailProject.html http://www.over-land.com/trwest.html http://library.thinkquest.org/6400/ http://www.photoswest.org/exhib/faves/faves.htm
18	Prospector Websites http://www.worldbookonline.com http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/index.html http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/allabout.html http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/ http://www.huntington.org/Education/GoldRush/Entrance/index.htm
19	Native American Websites http://www.worldbookonline.com http://www.rosecity.net/tears/ http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/native/index.html http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sacagawea.htm http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/american_indians.html
20	Railroad Websites
21	Conclusion You made it! You are now officially a Westerner! Now is the time to reflect on your journey. Was it worth it? Did you find what you expected to find, or were you surprised? Was it more difficult than you expected? How will you make your life a success here? In the resources provided on the Role pages, read about how people adjusted to their new lives, who became rich and who struggled. If you had known what was out there before your journey began, do you think you would still have made it?