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Pioneers on the Prairie

For Grades 3 to 6

Imagine you are pioneer, making a new life on the prairie in the 1800s. What would you and your family need to survive? What challenges might you face? How would you find the supplies you need? In what kind of home would you live? To what kind of school would you go? What kinds of foods would you eat?

These are some of the questions you could use to introduce the Pioneers on the Prairie project to your class. Over the next few weeks your class will answer these questions, and many more questions will be raised. Using fiction and nonfiction literature, CD-ROMs, and the Internet, students will build reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills as they develop an understanding of and an appreciation for the hardships pioneers faced on the frontier as they built their communities and supported their families.

To download a copy of the project, you will need a userid and password. Please go to the Terms of Use page for more information. If you have a userid and password, click here.