MYP Westward Expansion Unit
Amy and Felice
Oct. 31, 2006
Guiding Question – how does environment influence culture?
Content/Topics
What Students will Know
 Land Acquisitions
 Native Americans and
Pioneers
 Frontier Life
 Manifest Destiny
Final Product
Area of Interaction
Criteria
Length of Unit
Skills
What Students will be able to Do
 Chronology / Timeline
 Primary Source Analysis
- synthesis
- comprehension
- identify key questions
- understand bias
- compare/contrast
 Map skills
 Non-Fiction Writing
- narrative
 Research / Internet skills
 Non-fiction Reading
Digital / 1st person story
Environment
Concepts
Organization and Presentation
8 weeks
Tuesday, Jan. 9 – Thursday, March
1
Brainstorming from October 27, 3:00
Why is it important for students to learn about Westward Expansion?
 Pioneer Spirit
 Destiny of America
 Connection to/ownership of USA
 Responsibility for the future of USA
 Terms that were discussed
- Cultural baggage
- Cultural sieve
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- Manifest Destiny
Calendar – MYP Westward Expansion Unit
1/8
No School
1/9
1/10
1/11
1/12
Intro Project—Choose topic--brainstorm
1/15
No School
1/16
1/17
1/18
1/19
PPT: Wading through the web
1st person activity
1/22
1/23
1/24
1/25
1/26
Scripts Due
nd
Research 2nd half
Research 2 half
1/29
1/30
Storyboard 2nd half
2/5
2/6
Create 2nd half
1/31
Storyboard
DUE
2/7
2/1
2/2
Create 2nd half
2/8
Presentations
due
2/9
Presentations
due
CREATE ALL
BLOCK
CREATE ALL
BLOCK
2/12
2/13
2/14
2/15
2/16
2/20
2/21
2/22
Review for
Unit Test
2/23
Review for
Unit Test
2/28
Funky Day
Make up
Presentations?
3/1
Unit Test
3/2
No School
Presentations
all week
2/19
No School
No School
2/26
2/27
Unit Test
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
Chapter 7 Lesson 2 Frontier—why people move
Chapter 7 Lesson 3—Native Americans
Simulation?
Chapter 15 History Alive: Land Acquisitions
Chapter 16 History Alive: Life in the West
WestQuest
Manifest Destiny—Way we Saw it
Westward Expansion Map
Kids Discover: Pioneers and Lewis and Clark
Timeline
Primary Sources: Painting, Jeffersons Instructions to Lewis and Clark/Journals, Diary of
Marshall and other Gold Miners, Star Spangled Banner
Digital Storytelling Project Choices
People
Lewis
Clark
Sacajawea
Pike
Mountain Men
Pioneer Women
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boone
Thomas Jefferson(as pres after 1800)
Andrew Jackson
Francis Scott Key
Cherokee
Pioneers
Brigham Young
Stephen Austin
Techumseh
Events
Louisiana Purchase
Alamo
War of 1812
Gold Rush
Trail of Tears
Places
Oregon Trail
Continental Divide
Texas
Mexican Cession
California
Mormon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Mining Camp
Rocky Mountains
Things
Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Log Cabin
Covered Wagon
Indian Removal Act