Oregon Trail Game: Simulation Travel Guide
- Grades
- Grades 4–8, Middle School, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, History: USA
- Topic
- Oregon Trail, travel guide
- Resource types
- Games, Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
Enjoy taking your middle school and upper elementary students on an adventure of a lifetime known as the Oregon Trail! Students will form wagon teams and race each other to the Oregon Territory while learning about this important era in United States history. It’s a fantastic activity for any early American History class or to even use as a westward expansion simulation!
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Confirm the linked image opens the trail guide correctly before assigning it to students.
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Does this guide cover the full Oregon Trail route, or just part of it?
It covers only the first leg of the trail, from the starting point at Independence, Missouri to the first major landmark, Chimney Rock, not the entire route.
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Oregon Trail
westward expansion
Independence Missouri to Chimney Rock
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