1G18/1G19 – New Families Arrive And Move West

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Class Summary

Students should leave the class understanding how settlers went to America on the Mayflower and used wagons to move west.

Lesson Slide

1G18/1G19 – New Families Arrive And Move West

Main Teaching Points

  • Explain: Before the 1600s people called Native Americans lived in North America. In 1620, families from Europe started to move to North America to live. These families were called settlers. They traveled to North America on a ship called the Mayflower.
  • Explain: After the settlers arrived on the East Coast of North America, some of them decided to become explorers. The explorers used wagons pulled by horses to carry their things.
  • Explain: Some of the explorers only went a short distance and stopped. They made homes and started new towns.
    The rest of the explorers kept going until they reached the Mississippi river.
  • Explain: The explorers followed the Mississippi river and went west until they reached the pacific ocean. The explorers made maps that helped others to travel west.

Discussion Questions

  • Who was living in North America before the settlers came?
  • What is a settler?
  • What is the Mayflower?
  • What is the Mississippi? How big is the Mississippi?
  • How did the settlers pack up their things when they traveled?

In-Class Activities

  • Use Vocabulary Cards : Use vocabulary cards to discuss settlers going to America.
    • settler – a person who goes to live in a new place.
    • explorer – a person who goes looking for new places and things
    • Mayflower- a ship that took people from England to America
    • Mississippi- is a huge river that is over 2,000 miles long