We studied cowboys and the American West the week before we went to Tweetsie Railroad - just to make sure they'd fully appreciate the experience. Here's a run down of the best resources I could find at my library and online:
- A cowboys and Indians playset. Ours included tepees, a covered wagon, cactus, and...palm tree?
- Interactive journey Go West Across America With Lewis and Clark at National Geographic Kids.
- Sacajawea (All Aboard Reading)
- Lewis and Clark coloring pages
- Crayola covered wagon and horse crafts
- Cowboy Math
- Learn to draw an armadillo
- Pecos Bill
- John Henry
- Riding the Rails
- A Picture Book of Davy Crockett
- Davy Crockett Saves the World
- Davy Crockett (the movie with Fess Parker)
- Last year we also read Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)
- Tall Tales DVD
- ABEKA's 2nd grade Our America 's section on pioneers and the West.
It worked out very well that the library decided to have a Western hoedown activity day that Tuesday and Davy Crockett's birthday was that Saturday. Our resources were geared toward a K5-2nd grade level. Here are some more that we didn't get to.
- A Marshall "M" alphabet buddy
- Oregon Trail coloring pages
- Cowboy/Rodeo unit
- Westward Ho! Cyberhunt
- Draw yourself in the back of the covered wagon printable.
- Attack in the Rye Grass: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman (Trailblazer Books #11)
- PBS Go!'s Day in the Life history game
- Printable Color Tracks train board game. Look under file folder games.
- PBS Kids' Gold Rush
And some for older kids:
- The Oregon Trail online adventure
- Lewis and Clark Lapbook
- Oregon Trail worksheets, including math
- Whitman mission national historic site
- Christian History Institute's article on the Whitmans
- Trailblazers - I was fascinated by this website. It gave information of the many Western trailblazers. Lewis and Clark were not the first non-Indians to see the Pacific!
- The Gold Rush
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