Monday, September 22, 2008

The Oregon Trail
















For Social Studies we are studying the Oregon Trail. The students are working in groups which simulate wagon trains. Each student has an identity, possibly a family and a wagon that they travel with. We have 4 wagon trains with 6-7 people per train. Each train also has a wagon master that controls the group. Today 9/22/2008 they had to decide what to bring with them in their individual wagons. They used uni fix cubes to be able to see and compare the size/amount and weight/space objects would take up in their wagons. The items they can choose from are shown on the list in the image and they are weighted by BWU (bulk weight units) each cube was one unit. For example, a hammer was 2 BWU (2 cubes) and a cooking stove was 75 BWU (75 cubes). They had to ultimately decided what was going to ultimate for survival and could only fit 1000 BWU in their wagon.

1 comment:

jayne said...

jayne here i love the twin day it was the funnest thing ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
love ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!