Authoring, Researching, Reporting and Other Work

A Learning On-Line Learning Activity Page by Howard Taylor

To be used with the National Trail & Pioneer Activity

The Trail On Line Resources will provide information for how the emigrants from the East to the West would go about planning their hard journey.

Economic planning --  money to purchase wagons, supplies (food, medicines, clothes, weapons, ammunition, etc.), draft animals, extra wagon parts, money and objects to trade for supplies during the trip would be needed

Geographical Planning -- getting maps (mostly home-made); word of mouth directions; explanation of trail mile markers, geographical/geological features, political information, warnings about dangers.  This type of knowledge would come from ones who went and returned to tell about it, or perhaps letters from ones on the trip.

Using the Resource Links, the student can find all the information necessary for a family or group of emigrants to prepare for a journey west on the National Trail and further.

The students can make presentations, write books, do original art, write in any of the ISAT writing styles according to what they want to explain.