Apply distance, scale, and route-mapping skills to overland trails — Oregon Trail, California Trail, Mormon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Pony Express, Lewis and Clark route
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~8 min
hist.g4.s.ex_39
Trail Indigenous Homeland Write
Prompt
For Oregon Trail and Mormon Trail, name 3 Indigenous nations whose homelands EACH trail crossed. Use present-tense for nations.
How it's presented
mode
writing
prompt audio ID
audio.g4s.ex 39.stem
Answer criteria
type
rubric
rubric
3 nations per trail × 2 trails = 6 nations named with present-tense framing
Hints
- Both trails crossed plains nations
- Mormon Trail crossed Great Basin nations too
Misconceptions to watch
- Past-tense framing
- Repeating same nations for both trails without checking
Used in lessons