THE PROCESS (Be sure you read everything before you start any of the steps.)
1. Start by looking at all the information on this Web Quest.
2. Choose the role you would like to research.
3. Meet with your partner(s) and choose three-four essential questions from the Role page that you both want to present in your project. Begin researching your role. Use the website links, the videos, encyclopedias, and other non-fiction books in the library.
4. Take notes on your graphic organizer. Pay particular attention to things that sound unusual or amazing as this will end up being good material for your journal entries. Make sure your notes answer your essential questions.
5. Make sure you keep track of all the places (websites, books, videos, etc.) where you collect information. You will be required to cite these sources as part of your project. Use the Bibliography pages provided and store these with your notes in your writing binder in the seeds and topics section.
6. Using your notes, you will write one first person narrative journal entry per essential question. These journal entries will be written in the voice of your chosen role. You will write one independently and one with your partner(s).
7. If you are doing a movie with MovieMaker, you will be reading your journal entries. If you are doing a PowerPoint, your journal entries should be on separate slides.
8. Historically accurate images will be added to your project to make it more enjoyable for your audience to view. They must match what is being said or written. You should use netTrekker to locate images.
9. Present your project!
1. Start by looking at all the information on this Web Quest.
2. Choose the role you would like to research.
3. Meet with your partner(s) and choose three-four essential questions from the Role page that you both want to present in your project. Begin researching your role. Use the website links, the videos, encyclopedias, and other non-fiction books in the library.
4. Take notes on your graphic organizer. Pay particular attention to things that sound unusual or amazing as this will end up being good material for your journal entries. Make sure your notes answer your essential questions.
5. Make sure you keep track of all the places (websites, books, videos, etc.) where you collect information. You will be required to cite these sources as part of your project. Use the Bibliography pages provided and store these with your notes in your writing binder in the seeds and topics section.
6. Using your notes, you will write one first person narrative journal entry per essential question. These journal entries will be written in the voice of your chosen role. You will write one independently and one with your partner(s).
7. If you are doing a movie with MovieMaker, you will be reading your journal entries. If you are doing a PowerPoint, your journal entries should be on separate slides.
8. Historically accurate images will be added to your project to make it more enjoyable for your audience to view. They must match what is being said or written. You should use netTrekker to locate images.
9. Present your project!
Choose a role, click on the title to find more information.
Role 1: An Explorer with Lewis & Clark
It's May of 1804 and you are one of 45 men selected to travel with Lewis and Clark to explore the land from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. President Thomas Jefferson has asked your group to report on the plants, animals, people (Native Americans) and geography of the land.
Role 2: Prospector
It's 1849 and the California gold rush has swept the country, and the world. You dream of a better life, which you think you can get quickly if you find gold. People are getting rich from the gold they are finding in the American River. You want to be a part of this -- and so do 50,000 others from all over the world! In just 7 years, California's population rose from 800 to 55,000 people, all because of the GOLD RUSH. Only 1 in every thousand prospectors actually became rich during the California gold rush -- will you be one of the few? ?
Role 3: Pioneer
It's 1840 and you need a new start. With the country's expansion West, you hear of riches and opportunity beyond anything you have experienced back here in the East. You decide to pack up the whole family and head West. You are a pioneer, willing to work the land and start a new life.
Role 4: Native American
It is the late 1830’s. You are one of the 17,000 Cherokees that are being forced to leave your sacred homelands of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, and march to the Indian Territory in the West. As you move from your home, what experiences do you have? Explore the feelings, emotions, and changes that you go through as you are moved from your home.
Role 5: A Railroad Builder
It’s 1863 and construction has begun on a transcontinental, or coast-to-coast, railroad in order to connect the east to the west. Many soldiers who had fought in the Civil War and many Chinese and Irish immigrants are building the rail system. You are one of these railroad builders and you’ve joined one of the two companies who are competing to lay down the track (whoever lays more track gets more money and more land from the government). The Central Pacific is starting from California to build to the east, while the Union Pacific is starting from Nebraska (where the eastern railroad lines left off) and building west. As you work to connect the east and west in Promontory, Utah, you experience the geography of the land, natural resources, Native Americans, pioneers, and prospectors heading west.
It's May of 1804 and you are one of 45 men selected to travel with Lewis and Clark to explore the land from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. President Thomas Jefferson has asked your group to report on the plants, animals, people (Native Americans) and geography of the land.
Role 2: Prospector
It's 1849 and the California gold rush has swept the country, and the world. You dream of a better life, which you think you can get quickly if you find gold. People are getting rich from the gold they are finding in the American River. You want to be a part of this -- and so do 50,000 others from all over the world! In just 7 years, California's population rose from 800 to 55,000 people, all because of the GOLD RUSH. Only 1 in every thousand prospectors actually became rich during the California gold rush -- will you be one of the few? ?
Role 3: Pioneer
It's 1840 and you need a new start. With the country's expansion West, you hear of riches and opportunity beyond anything you have experienced back here in the East. You decide to pack up the whole family and head West. You are a pioneer, willing to work the land and start a new life.
Role 4: Native American
It is the late 1830’s. You are one of the 17,000 Cherokees that are being forced to leave your sacred homelands of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, and march to the Indian Territory in the West. As you move from your home, what experiences do you have? Explore the feelings, emotions, and changes that you go through as you are moved from your home.
Role 5: A Railroad Builder
It’s 1863 and construction has begun on a transcontinental, or coast-to-coast, railroad in order to connect the east to the west. Many soldiers who had fought in the Civil War and many Chinese and Irish immigrants are building the rail system. You are one of these railroad builders and you’ve joined one of the two companies who are competing to lay down the track (whoever lays more track gets more money and more land from the government). The Central Pacific is starting from California to build to the east, while the Union Pacific is starting from Nebraska (where the eastern railroad lines left off) and building west. As you work to connect the east and west in Promontory, Utah, you experience the geography of the land, natural resources, Native Americans, pioneers, and prospectors heading west.