Product Description

Describes the choices and decisions the pioneers faced as they traveled to the American West and built settlements there. Includes activities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154968 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781885593382
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Kids can take a vicarious dose of Horace Greeley's famous advice in the activity book Going West!: Journey on a Wagon Train to Settle a Frontier Town by Carol A. Johmann and Elizabeth J. Reith. Spurts of friendly, informative narrative relating different aspects of travel along the Oregon Trail link such projects as building a model prairie schooner out of a cardboard box, balsa wood and an old pillowcase; and constructing a miniature Fort Laramie out of Popsicle sticks.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Gr 3-6-A good combination of history lesson, craft instruction, critical-thinking activities, and story. The factual sections give background on the American acquisition of the land extending to the Pacific Ocean, Native American philosophy regarding land ownership, Indian land loss, and a great deal of additional information pertaining to life on the westward trails. "You Are There" pieces narrated by a fictional child chronicling wagon-train life and sidebars encouraging readers to ponder various situations and make decisions on the trail appear throughout the text. Short sections explain crafts and skills analogous to those used by the pioneers. The projects are well illustrated with line drawings and children should be able to complete them with a minimum of adult help. The interweaving of various types of writing, viewpoints, and activities results in an animated and interesting whole that will appeal to readers interested in the topic. Period photos help bring the era to life and a few simple maps indicate wagon routes. Laurie Carlson's Westward Ho! (Chicago Review, 1996) has a similar format, but the addition of a story in Going West! is likely to encourage children to read it from cover to cover. Combine this title with Louis M. Bloch Jr.'s Overland to California in 1859 (Bloch & Company, 1990), compiled from mid-19th-century documents, to help students relive the excitement of the pioneer days.-Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, NJ

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Review
..". the addition of the story (narrated by a fictional child) is likely to encourage children to read it from cover to cover."

Customer Reviews

Lots of Fun!
I'm 10 and I really liked the book and felt like I was really riding on a wagon train across the country. I made the Fort Laramie project out of old popsicle sticks, it didn't look perfect but I had fun making it. On winter vacation, I want to do more of the projects.

Going West...
An excellent resource for teaching about the West. Lots of information and hands-on crafts for children to do.

Great Activity Book About Westward Migration!
This is a nice activity book about westward migration and the pioneer life. The facts and the activities in this book are entertaining and fun. Both adults and children would not be hesitant to make the items for fear it would take too much time or require materials that one is not likely to have on hand. I found many facts that I had never heard or understood completely before. This book is great for the future engineers in your family or kids who would benefit in understanding how things are made. The reading is easy, interesting and fun.