Genessee+Country+Village+Museum

We did a lot of preparation before our trip to GCVM. Most other countries don't have an immigrant/pioneer history, so they needed to build background knowledge.

[|Assignment: Pioneer conversations]

[|Here is the video page from our blog (3 week program). Scroll down to see examples of the above Pioneer Conversations.] At the bottom of the page are the 5 pioneer videos: The Coopers, The Quakers, The Schoolteacher, The Post Office, and The Pioneers. You can use these as exemplars of the conversations.

[|This is a form for creating a student-made vocab list.]

[|Here is a RAFT for GCVM.]

[|Here is a jeopardy game about pioneers/GCVM.]

[|Another jeopardy game about pioneers.]

[|We did a webquest activity before we went on the trip.]

[|Here are the questions and the answers from the above webquest](only one website).

[|This is one vocabulary list we used.] You'll have to differentiate for your class.