Description

Experience the excitement of Westward Expansion with your students! Evan-Moor’s History Pockets: Moving West offers a hands-on approach to learning about this transformative period in American history. Students create a pocket folder to store engaging activities, fact sheets, and worksheets covering the new frontier, missionaries, the Oregon Trail, the Native American struggle, the Gold Rush, homesteading, and more.

This resource includes various activities, such as mini-books and 3-D paper projects, as well as helpful illustrations, maps, charts, and timelines. Evaluation sheets at the back of the book help assess student understanding. Step-by-step teacher instructions and overview pages guide you through each project. Please note that pockets will need to be constructed from construction paper or similar sturdy material (not included). The book contains 10 project pockets and 96 classroom-reproducible pages in a softcover format, with an answer key included. Recommended for Grades 4-6.