Pioneers At Work




A replica of a sod house created by Haven and Emory.
We found that building a real sod house was really a lot of work.
The sod had to be cut into bricks three feet thick.
Click here to see real ones.



A replica of a dug out house created by Mason and Nathan.
Real dugout houses were mostly underground. Sometime the pioneers
made a dugout to stay in while they did the work of building a sod house.
Here is the story: of building a house on their new land.
You can see a picture of a sod house with a collapsed roof -- just like ours!




Students with their timelines
After each lesson, students added a picture and a short statement about what they learned that day.




Mason and Haven creating their Oregon Trail brochures.




Students with their brochures
At the end of our unit, students created their own travel brochures about the Oregon Trail.




Ms. Steinway writing down the students' ideas for their concept map.




Haven and Mason evaluating websites during the lab day for our Links To Learn page.




Nathan and Emory evaluating websites as well.