What’s Included

Everything you need to teach Westward Expansion from start to finish:

📚 Teaching Materials

✔ Full teacher lesson plans
✔ Suggested book list (optional — unit stands alone!)
✔ 25+ informational text passages with comprehension activities
✔ Half-page informational text booklets
✔ Student timeline
✔ Primary sources
✔ Westward Expansion maps
✔ Charts & graphic organizers
✔ Rubrics

🎨 Hands-On Projects

✔ Lewis and Clark Choice Bingo
✔ Westward Trails Foldable
✔ Create-an-Advertisement task
✔ End-of-unit collage project
✔ Crafts and creative tasks

📝 Assessments & Study Tools

✔ Study guide
✔ Westward Expansion Test (matching, multiple-choice, and open-ended response)
✔ Self-check review (Google Slides + PowerPoint)
✔ Quiz with printable option or Google Forms for automatic grading

Each Westward Expansion Event has an informational text and an activity presented in chronological order:

★ Daniel Boone

★ Westward Expansion: Northwest Ordinance

★ Westward Expansion: Louisiana Purchase

★ Lewis and Clark- Thomas Jefferson

★ Sacagawea

★ Seminole Wars

★ Westward Expansion: Acquisition of Florida

★ Santa Fe Trail

★ Indian Removal Act

★ Battle of the Alamo

★ Trail of Tears

★ Oregon Trail

★ Manifest Destiny

★ California Trail

★ Westward Expansion: Annexation of Texas

★ Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

★ Mormon Trail

★ Oregon Treaty

★ Oregon Fever

★ Westward Expansion: Mexican Cession

★ Gold Rush

★ Westward Expansion: Gadsden Purchase

★ Pony Express

★ Telegraph

★ Pacific Railroad Act

🎯 Skills Students Will Practice

This unit builds ELA and social studies mastery:

★ Reading comprehension
★ Inference + text evidence
★ Cause and effect
★ Compare and contrast
★ Chronological order & timelines
★ Mapping + geography
★ Fact gathering & grouping
★ Writing across history topics
★ Notice–Think–Wonder
★ Poetry + creative responses
★ Context clues and vocabulary

Answer keys included!

(Be careful not to put this resource on a public website. For copyright purposes, websites need to be password-protected)

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