Market Place Activity: How did Homesteaders overcome the problems they faced on the Great Plains?

This outstanding lesson on the American West has been designed to help students understand how the Homesteaders survived and adapted to the problems they faced on the Great Plains such as water supply, natural hazards, extreme weather, protecting crops, bankruptcy, insects and Native Americans. The key activity focuses around an engaging market place or gather and share activity which is suitable for the full range of ability.

This lesson includes a 26 slide PowerPoint which contains aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, information slides, starters, plenaries and a range of activities including a thinking skills triangle task, the market place activity, an extended writing or an alternative mind mapping exercise. This resource also includes pictures, diagrams and templates for summarising learning.

For more information please see the sample preview. The aims and objectives for this activity are:

Theme: How successful were the Homesteaders at settling on the Great Plains?
Know: What problems did they have to overcome?
Understand: How did the Homesteaders adapt and survive?
Evaluate: What impact did these solutions have on the Homesteaders, the environment and the Native Americans?
Skills: Cause, Consequence, Change, Continuity & Source Evaluation.

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: What problems did the Homesteaders have to overcome in order to survive?
Explain: Did they try and solve these problems?
Analyse: What impact did these solutions have on the Homesteaders, the environment and the Native Americans?

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