Pony Express This is a website that provides a blank us map. The pony express in DepthThis is a social studies and math lesson where the students will use a http://www.valdosta.edu/~cebarber/intro.html
Extractions: Introduction The Pony Express employed the most courageous and adventurous young men and the strongest horses to transport the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California-a distance of almost 2,000 miles. The 19 months that this exceptional service lasted (before it was replaced by the telegraph) represents one of the most thrilling eras of western United States history. Table of Contents Introduction to the Unit Student Outcomes Links to Lessons Children's Books ... Pre/Post Test Student Outcomes This unit was developed for Mrs. Shannon Steedley's 3rd grade class at Center Elementary; however, many of the lesson plans may be adapted to meet the needs of any grade level students. Through this unit the students will learn about the history of the Pony Express, as well as about some of its riders. The students will learn to use map skills, go on a virtual field trip, and work together on activities. The outcomes that should be reached by teaching this unit are that students will learn the history of the modern day mailing system, will learn map skills, will learn to work cooperatively, and will further research the topic of the Pony Express. Web sites Buffalo Bill
Lesson 2 The pony express in Depth This is a Math and Social studies lesson created for5th grade In the movement west, the pony express was a major influence in http://www.valdosta.edu/~cebarber/lesson2.html
Extractions: This is a Math and Social Studies lesson created for 5th grade. This lesson was adapted from the internet from Rich McClelland. In the movement West, the Pony Express was a major influence in communications during its short life. Many students may be intrigued by the story of the Pony Express, and the following activities will help them discover a little about the route, and some of the problems they encountered. The students will answer math questions based on their searching of the website listed about the Pony Express and trace the route of the Pony Express. Primary Learning Outcomes
Nebraska Social Studies Washington Social studies west Virginia Social studies - Wisconsin Socialstudies This is the territory of the pony express, the Overland Stage, http://www.archaeolink.com/nebraska_social_studies.htm
Extractions: Nebraska People History Social Studies Home Alabama Social Studies Alaska Social Studies Arizona Social Studies ... Wyoming Social Studies For information about Ancient Nebraska , go to American Archaeology , state by state. Special Pages - Nebraska History Colleges and Universities Nebraska Capital City Nebraska Lesson Plans ... Nebraska Tourism Please Note: If you sometimes get an error message when clicking on a large text link, don't give up. Try the URL link instead. There are times when the large text link doesn't "take" for some reason, thus the built-in redundancy. Thank you. Introduction to Nebraska, The Cornhuskers State Capital Lincoln "I t is easy to visualize the Old West in the land of Nebraska. This is the territory of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, Boot Hill, the Oregon and Mormon Trails. This is where the mighty Missouri flows, and where the Sioux and the Omaha have flourished. This is where historical figures, like Crazy Horse and Chief Red Cloud, Walter Reed, and Lewis and Clark played out the early history of the American West." Plus even more. - illustrated - From netstate.com -
Social Studies / History Index us studies State by State Social studies Arrival in America - Gold SilverRushes - Lewis Clark - Orphan Trains - Overland Trails - pony express - http://www.archaeolink.com/amazing_worlds_of_archaeology2.htm
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MissouriThen&Now Watch Video Coming Through Missourians Explore Trails west Mountain Men FurTraders pony express History The pony express A Study In Contrast http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/thenandnow.html
PBS - THE WEST - Lesson Plans Index Group II Events in the west Group III Territorial Growth of the us in maps . The west s Timeline pony express; Chapters XIII and XIV about the Mormons http://www.pbs.org/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson02.htm
Extractions: In this lesson students learn how Samuel Clemens Students put Clemens' life in the context of Westward expansion by creating a timeline which is then used to make deductions about how the West affected Twain, and how Twain's writing affected the ways in which the nation perceived and mythologized the West. As a whole class, students read three chapters of Roughing It In discussion and through writing assignments they focus on the ways in which Twain developed a distinctive Western voice, analyze how his persona functions in the telling of the tales, and scrutinize the tales for both the stereotypes and truths they reveal about a West which was vanishing even as Twain wrote about it. Then students break up into smaller groups, each assigned the task of reading and reporting on a chapter of Roughing It to the rest of the class. Students write creative pieces inspired by Twain as well as analytical essays about his work. Objectives
Emporia State University - Center For Great Plains Studies This Newscast from the Past Trails west project will not only get them involved, pony express. Ghost Riders and Rest Stops Centennial Lesson Plan http://www.emporia.edu/cgps/tales/mallein.htm
Extractions: About ESU Academics Admissions Athletics ... International Students Select a link: Blackboard Course Offerings Career Services - Hire-a-Hornet Lifelong Learning Scholarships STING Student Access Transcript Requests Calendar of Events Email Giving to ESU WAW Library Faculty/Staff Directory Office/Department Directory Site Map Great Plains Studies Classes, Resources, etc. ... Center for Great Plains Studies by Darla Mallein Looking for a way to involve your students more actively in your Westward Expansion unit? This "Newscast from the Past: Trails West" project will not only get them involved, but it will also strengthen their communication skills as they research Western emigrant trails to help their class produce a 20-25 minute videotaped newscast about the Santa Fe, Oregon, Califnornia, Mormon, or Pony Express trails. Highlights of the newscast project all for students to create news stories about the hisotry of the trail, uses of the trail, and life on the trail. Students are encouraged to use primaruy sources, such as the many diaries and journals that are available. To make the videotaped newscasts more interesting, the students will utilize costumes, props, and music from that time period. The format of the newscasts is left to each class.
Westlessons Plot the route of the pony express. As you do this, discover the types ofBlank us maps for handouts, class map of us and trails west, http://edweb.sdsu.edu/T2ARP/quest/journeys/westlessons.html
Extractions: The Westward Movement Introduction These lessons revolve around the move Westward in covered wagons. They are designed to give a better understanding of the geographical region of the Great Basin while gaining an insight on what a trip West in a covered wagon might have been like. Content Areas and Grades This unit is for use in an American history class, primarily 7th through 9th grades. It meshes nicely with an interdisciplinary focus including Social Studies, Language Arts, and Math. Social Studies Standards Addressed Organizing Theme and Guiding Questions The principle theme of the unit is a 3-part structure. The first section deals with the reasons, organization, and motivations of people considering the move West. Part 2 is the actual westward travel.
Center For Great Plains Studies, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Majors, and Waddell), and pony express rider. During the early years of the Cody launched his own wild west show on May 17, 1883 in Omaha, Nebraska. http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/egpentries.html
Extractions: Cochran, Eddie Eddie Cochran, the pioneering rock'n'roll songwriter, singer, and guitarist with the James Dean good looks, was a product of a Plains background, even though his place of birth remains disputed. Some rock references maintain that he was born in Oklahoma City; others have him coming into the world at Albert Lea, Minnesota. The date, October 3, 1938, is not in dispute. Nor is the fact that his parents moved from Oklahoma City to Albert Lea at some point during the 1930s. Cochran himself claimed Oklahoma City as his hometown, and the country and western music which his parents had absorbed in Oklahoma was a formative influence on the young musician. Eddie Cochran, despite this early death, had lasting impact on rock music. Many artists, including the Sex Pistols and, most famously, The Who, have recorded his songs. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. David Wishart
About Us They held government contracts to deliver army supplies in the west, Russell,Majors and Waddel literally put together the pony express in a twomonth http://www.thediscovery.org/aboutus/ab_exh.html
Extractions: The Lure of Gold As the launching point of the great California Gold Rush, Sacramento was a bustling community in the mid-19th century. In the past, exhibits in this gallery have detailed the travels and lifestyles of the typical miner. Currently, the Discovery Museum is proud to present the renovation of the Gold Gallery, showcasing The Lure of Gold, a larger, more extensive exhibit on the history and science of gold, featuring a mineshaft and interactive kiosks. The Lure of Gold is an immersive hands-on exhibit, featuring multi-media stations and a large collection of gold specimens, that chronicles: Investigate the historical aspects of gold, be dazzled by our spectacular specimens or learn of the historical significance of gold's historical uses, value as money, physical characteristics and aspects of the gold mining process. Walk through a simulated environment representing the Sacramento area in the 1800s featuring: A woodsy setting echoing the hills of Placer County where visitors will gain a perspective on humanity's use of - and fascination with - gold Gold Rush fact and fiction while strolling past a miner's cabin A hard-rock simulated mine shaft where guests experience the history and technology of gold-mining
Haggin Museum - Exhibitions - Artists Of The American West Native Americans, trappers, traders, settlers, the pony express, the exhibition Artists of the American west offers us a useful perspective on early http://www.hagginmuseum.org/exhibitions/artists_american_west.html
Extractions: Tah-col-O-Quoit by Charles Bird King, ca. 1842, hand-colored lithograph, 13-1/4 x 9 inches Artists of the American West , on display July 10-Oct. 2, 2005. Native Americans, trappers, traders, settlers, the Pony Express, and railroad construction will be some of the subjects illustrated in the close to fifty hand-colored lithographs and wood engravings featured in this display. Spanning the period 1835-1886, these images were created by prominent artists such as John J. Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, and Frederic Remington. They offered 19th-century Americans their first views of the West. Today these prints provide a window on a frontier that has largely vanished. Two of the best known early artist-explorers to reach the Western frontier in the 1840s were Philadelphia-born artist George Catlin and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer. Thirteen of their memorable images showing the customs of various tribes of the Great Plains, as well as distinguished portraits of their chiefs, will be part of this display.
US History - WWW Resources - Westward Ho! west Essortment 19th Century Contains many articles on pony express as Arts Humanities History us History By Time Period 19th Century http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/USResources/west.htm
American History - Gananda School Library The Old west, Women in west, pony express http//www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/ amhsthc.html west Links to information about the Old west, http://www.gananda.k12.ny.us/library/mshslibrary/amhist.htm
Teaching Social Studies With The Internet (K-6) Jobs of the Past The pony express. The pony express http//buckman.pps.k12.or.us/room100/timeline/kingframe.html. Lesson Plans Grades 46 People and http://twi.classroom.com/socialstudies/k6/
Orphans Preferred Separates Pony Express Fact From Legend For 78 weeks in 1860 and 1861, young men on fast horses carried the us mail Putting it into his Wild west show, Cody imprinted the pony express on the http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/03/22/66781.php
Extractions: NEWS Local News Today's Photos Weather Nation and World ... Special Reports SPORTS Today's Section Wolf Pack Outdoors Sports Columnists ENTERTAINMENT Today's Section Movie Listings RGJ Datebook TV Listings ... Restaurant Inspections BUSINESS Today's Section Local Stocks Business Releases Technology LIVING Today's Section Health Reno Magazine Outdoors ... Inside + Out OPINION Today's Section Send Letter to the Editor Opinion Columnists ALL RGJ.com Columnists ... Trip of the Week SHOPPING ShopLocal - Brands Local Coupons Shop Talk WORTH A CLICK! Contact Us Submit News Tips It was a charming American whopper that gathered steam. For 78 weeks in 1860 and 1861, young men on fast horses carried the U.S. mail from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento in a grand experiment called the Pony Express. What we know about the riders and their adventures contains a lot of myth, some outright lies and some facts cloaked in the fog of nearly 150 years of history.
Extractions: Adams, Alexander B. "Speed Across the Plains." Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains . New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. (GL 917.8/Ad17/pp. 316-319). Adams, Samuel H. The Pony Express . New York, NY: Random House, 1950. (K917.8/P779a). American Heritage. "Passing of the Pony Express." Book of Great Historic Places . New York, NY: Author, 1957. (GL 917.3/Am35g/pp. 354-355). Atchison County Historical Society. "Atchison's Pony Express Riders." Atchison County Historical Society Newsletter (Aug. 15, 1979): 1-2. (**Oversize/K906/-At2). Bailey, W.F. "The Pony Express." Century 41 (Oct. 1898): 882-892. (K917.8/Pam.v.1/no. 3). Baird, Mabel. "'Pony Bob' and His Comrades of the Pony Express, 1860-1861." Overland Monthly 64 (July-Dec. 1914): 598-605. (GL 051/Ov2/V. 64). Banning, William and George H. Banning. "The Pony's Piper." Six Horses . New York, NY: Century Co., 1930. (GL 978/B227/pp. 225-236). Bassford, Homer. "The Story of the Pony Express: The Fast Mail Over the Plains."
Extractions: 1st Annual Northern Nevada Living History Festival 19th Century Colorado History from the Colorado State Archives African Cowboys One out of every three Cowboys in the Old West were African,Indian or Mexican All About Buffalo All About Cowboys American West: IPL Ready Reference Collection The American West - Frontier History An annotated directory of the best Internet resources on the history of the American West Association for Library Service to Children: Links to US History Pre-Colonial to 1865. An excellent site compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Lots of other sites for children too. Buffalo Soldiers Life on the Western Frontier Connecting Students: Westward Expansion Cowboy Links Links to just every imaginable western site. Davenport Public Library World and American History to the present. Early Western Americana information Early West History Events in the West From 1840 to 1850: A great PBS timeline. Events: 1850 to 1860 Events: 1860 to 1870 Exploring the Wild West: The Best Western Sites on the Internet. Fountain Valley Schools: US History and Geography Making a New Nation Frontier Days: Real and Imagined Fur Trade in Utah.
The Wild, Wild West!!! THE EARLY us REPUBLIC Archives of THE west Table of Contents by years The pony express History of the United States Postal Service American west http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/West.html
Extractions: The Wild, Wild West!!! How to do Research using the Navigation Aids: 1. By clicking on the Hotlinks, you will be taken directly to the exact location where the Topic is located on the page. 2. When you click on a site located under a topic, another browser window will open automatically for you on top of this page. With your mouse, pull that window down below the Topic you are researching. Every time you now click on a site, the material will appear in this window. This will allow you to quickly and easily read the material and go through each site listed without losing this page. Remember to cite the "web sites and their authors" given below as your information "sources" in your paper or presentation for citation/bibliographic purposes. Hotlinks: Table of Contents:
