Teachers are encouraged to share classroom stories in e-mail, through the website Fireside Stories, and in Campfire Chats. Then, they will meet, online, in the persona of their family identity to make a collective, Wagontrain decision. Suggested activities for Trail Decisions Read and discuss each trail decision, before students meet online, so they will thoroughly understand their choices. Following the on-line discussion. Ask students to write about the trail decision in their journals.
Students can write and publish their own pioneer journal.
Journals can contain poetry, landscape drawings, maps, lost dog posters etc. Take a look at Side Trips for additional projects. The resources on this site were prepared for the use of project participants, not for general public use.