2. Analyze Learner
The students for whom this lesson is
intended are 5th graders enrolled in a
specialized school for the deaf and hearing
impaired. There are 12 students (the maximum
allowed without a teacher’s aid): seven males
and five females.
3. Main Objectives
The students will understand the journey of the
Oregon Trail through discussion, analyzing old newspapers,
reading a novel, creating an edible covered wagon, drawing
maps, and making “pioneer” recipes with 85% accuracy.
4. Day-By-Day
▪ Monday: Read and discuss e-textbook chapter on The Oregon Trail. Group students into
“families”. Research online newspaper archives and decide path. Hw: Listen to Monday’s
Podcast and blog about 10 statements and their interpretations.
▪ Tuesday: Begin “Dear America” book. Create a budget /supplies activity on Microsoft Excel.
Hw: Identify five mechanics of the covered wagon and upload a visual of these mechanics to
Wikispaces in anatomical order.
▪ Wednesday: Make a covered wagon using gummy bears, twizzlers, graham crackers, etc.
Upload creations to slideshare as a class slideshow for parent night. Hw: Identify three major
locations along the Oregon Trail and provide four facts about each location; make a
verbal/sign language YouTube video using the information.
▪ Thursday: Draw Oregon Trail maps. Upload maps to Blendspace for parent night. Hw: Make a
“pioneer” recipe.
▪ Friday: “Welcome to Oregon” party. Pioneer recipes brought to class. Play The Oregon Trail
video game.
▪ Daily: Oregon Trail/Pioneer blogging.
5. Technology
▪ PowerPoint – Visual Instructions.
▪ iPad: E-book version of the Social Studies textbook.
▪ Google Archives/Time’s Machine (The New York
Times- Newspaper research.
▪ Podcast/Blogspace: Monday night’s homework/daily
pioneer blogging.
▪ Microsoft Excel: Budgeting/supplies activity.
▪ Wikispace: Tuesday night’s homework.
▪ Slideshare: Class slideshow of edible covered wagons.
▪ YouTube: Wednesday night’s homework.
▪ Blendspace: Oregon trail maps.
6. Works Cited
• Demographic Aspects of Hearing Impairments: Questions and Answers.
(1994). Research Support and International Affairs. Retrieved from
http://research.gallaudet.edu/Demographics/factsheet.php#Q5
• Newberry, Lisa.Traveling the OregonTrail. Retrieved from
http://teacherbulletin.ehclients.com/media/resources/V03_Oregon_Trail.p
df
• Updike, Len. Pioneers of theWest. Retrieved from
http://fg.ed.pacificu.edu/sweb/updike/files/The%20Oregon%20Trail%20W
ebQuest%20Teacher%20Page.html
