Classroom activity for SBAC Fifth Grade

1. The American West in the 1800s
By Mrs. De La Torre
PRE-SBAC Classroom activity

2. Key Vocabulary:
expansion: the act of becoming bigger or of making something bigger.
Pioneers: people that discovered and settled on new land, also known as settlers.
frontier: the edge of a settled area.
housing: buildings for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family
or small group of people.
clothing: items worn to cover the body.
travel: make a journey, typically of some length or abroad.

3. The Mississippi River was the border of the settled area. The frontier is west of the river.

5. People continued expanding west and made trails all the way to the coast of the
Pacific Ocean where Washington, Oregon and California are today.

6. Travel in the American west in
the 1800s
Coaches and carriages
drawn by horses, people on foot or
horseback.

7. Late 1800s, the railroad was built.

8. Housing in America in the 1800s
Some homes were made with mud bricks.

9. Some homes were made with logs.

10. Clothing in the 1800s

11. • Lots of layers
• Fully covered
• Hats and bonnets

12. Now, lets compare with today.
Discussion

13. In the performance task, you will be learning more about the American West
In the 1800s. The work you did today should help prepare you for the research
And writing you will be doing in the performance task.
Conclusion:
Clothing, housing and travel in the 1800s
were different compared to those same
things today.