This page contains links and documents which will help Lakeland Hills Fourth graders to be successful in the library.

BIBLIOGRAPHY- VERY IMPORTANT

Bibliography "How To"- This document demonstrates how to make a bibliography for many different sources.Bibliography Format

RUBRICS

Lewis and Clark Rubrics: This rubric is for the research projects using TrueFlix and Going Along with Lewis & Clark by Barbara Fifer. Students will take notes, create a slide deck, create bibliographies and share with classmates. They will be using Google Classroom to organize all of their materials.( https://classroom.google.com)

Oregon Trail Google Slides (or other format) Presentation: This rubric is the expectations for the final independent project on a location on the Oregon Trail.

Students may work together to produce a video or sound to put up on their final projects.

COVERED WAGON: Fourth graders are creating a historical fiction journey along the Oregon Trail. To begin their journey they need to pack their Schooner covered wagon with supplies to take on the trip. They may only pack 2500 pounds of supplies (includes water).

Spread sheet will be done in Google Docs so that it may be accessible anywhere. Remember to log into your google account with your user name (first 5 letters last name first 3 letters first name 000@gmail.asd.com [some people are 00? depending on what they were given]) Your password is 00lunchnumber

Then go to classroom Click on your assignment.

Make sure to follow the rules of the rubric for this activity Wagon Rubric(click here)

LINKS

Lewis and Clark Exploration Links

1. Lewis and Clark.com : You will find out about the Corps of Discovery travel here. You will also enjoy learning more about the Lewis and Clark Expedition that began in 1803 and ended more than three years later.
2. National Geographic's Lewis and Clark Production: When Thomas Jefferson dispatched Lewis and Clark to find a water route across North America and explore the uncharted West, he expected they'd encounter woolly mammoths, erupting volcanoes, and a mountain of pure salt. What they found was no less surprising. See it all on National Geographic's Informational journey: journal entries, historical photos, drawings, and more.

Oregon Trail Important locations

1. Independence, Missouri
   1. Independence.com: This site tells what is so important about Independence, Missouri
   2. Oregon Trail: This page gives some history of Independence, Missouri
2. Mormon Trail
   1. Trail information: This site gives information about the Mormon Trail and Joseph Smith
   2. Joseph Smith and the Mormon Trail
   3. Mormon Trail- Facts

California Trail

1. California Trail and a Rush to Gold
2. Family Trail Info- California Trail