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 * __**Materials:**__ Include documents or links for anything YOU create for this assignment.

1. Student Activity Guide

2. Teacher created materials:

Google Doc: [|WesternExpansionRoutes]

Wiki: American Western Expansion

Reflection Blog: [|WesternExpansionBlog]

Wiki Rubric: Rubric || __**Technology tools:**__ list each technology tool that adds value to the project. Write and added value statement for each. Include web sites that add value. For this lesson we will use the following technology tools:
 * Web sites which add value: ~ [|Pioneers], [|Mormon Pioneer Trail], [|Maps] , [|Oregan][|Pioneer Trial] These websites are interactive, age appropriate and student friendly. They allow the student to use technology to research, organize, and share.
 * **Skype**: The class will use Skype to talk to a local Historian Expert who specializes in Early Pioneer Exploration. This activity will allow the students to have an Expert speaker virtually inside thier classroom.
 * **Google Docs:** Each student will add and share a western exploration route, the lacation it starts and stops, and which route westward the student would choose. This adds student interacitons, organization, and knowledge sharing.
 * **Twitter**: Students will Tweet inportant information about thier groups topic. They can also Tweet questions to the teacher and other students or groups. This adds mulit level group communication through social networking.
 * **Clickers:** Students will use clickers to participate in review questions relating to Early American Westward Expansion. This increases student participation (each student is held accountable to answer each review question) and gives the teacher instant assessment if the students know the material.
 * **Blog:** Each student will share information on a class Blog about Western Exploration. This allows students to share knowledge, relate sefl expression, and voice relating to writing for an audience.
 * **Wiki:** Students will contribute to a class Wiki as groups and individual about western exploration. This alows students to openly and virtually share knowledge in a social forum with the awareness of audience.
 * **Materials needed for this unit:** Document camera, computers with internet access, clickers, computer with video camera for Skyping. ||