Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide PP | Pausing Point 117Image Card Review
Materials: Image Cards 5–9
Give each of the Image Cards to a different group of students. Have
the students take turns using Think Pair Share or Question? Pair
Share to ask and answer questions about the particular image.Domain-Related Trade Book or Student Choice
Materials: Trade book
Read an additional trade book to review a particular person,
invention, or event related to westward expansion; refer to the
books listed in the Introduction. You may also choose to have
students select a read-aloud to be heard again.You Were There: Robert Fulton’s First Steamboat Voyage;
Traveling on the Erie Canal
Have students pretend that they were at one of the important
events during the westward expansion of the United States. For
example, for Robert Fulton’s historic steamboat voyage, students
may talk about seeing the paddle wheels turn, or steam pouring
from the smokestacks. They may talk about hearing the water
splash, or the captain giving orders, etc. Consider also extending
this activity by adding group or independent writing opportunities
associated with the “You Were There” concept. For example, ask
students to pretend they are newspaper reporters describing this
historic voyage. Have them write a group news article using the Wh-
question word model to describe this event.Who Robert Fulton
What invented a better and faster steamboat
When^1807
Where along the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, New
York
Why Fulton wanted to change the way people travel