{"id":459024,"date":"2010-03-22T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2505"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:28:33","slug":"teaching-geography-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-the-santa-fe-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459024","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Geography With Children\u2019s Literature: The Santa Fe Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/03\/x12215.jpg\" title=\"Direct link to file\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/03\/x12215.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"x12215.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Introduction and Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Santa Fe Trail by Judy Alter is a book about settlers traveling West in order to find a better life in the United States.\u00a0 However, much of what is talked about in the book is the different terrain that the settlers come across while on their journey out West.\u00a0 The book includes many photos and illustrations of the types of terrain settlers dealt with on their long journey, including overgrown grassy fields, the Rocky mountains, and even deserts.\u00a0 The book also illustrates maps of the trail as well as states it ran through. The Santa Fe Trail goes into depth as well about westward expansion, important figures who were involved, and even gives a list of important vocabulary words in the back of the book as well as a timeline of events.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This book would be great to use in a unit about traveling out West, particularly on trails such as the Santa Fe.\u00a0 This book would be best for grades 3-5 because it involves quite a bit of text as well as vocabulary words that might be somewhat advanced for younger grades.\u00a0 In Virginia, this book would be a great resource to use with Virginia SOL standards USII.2 and USII.3.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a01. Here is a fun way for students to learn more about the Santa Fe Trail through a <a href=\"http:\/\/education.nmsu.edu\/webquests\/wq\/sft\/sftrail.htm\" title=\"webquest\">webquest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">2. This<a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyfunschool.com\/article2195.html\" title=\"site\"> site <\/a>is not a webquest but allows students to visit various interesting sites about the Santa Fe Trail in order to fill in the blanks for questions they are supposed to answer (listed on site).\u00a0 Teachers can go over these questions in class once students have completed the assignment.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">3. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZDaCAWZTF6QC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=the+santa+fe+trail+games+for+students&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=DNftoyOvPT&amp;sig=fZzNy4KyTCmpVg6N_iKqLmvhI74&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=E7anS-XPNsT_lgfRkfGICA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=10&amp;ved=0CB0Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" title=\"This\">This<\/a> is an activity book with lots of fun games about the Santa Fe Trail for students to play.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>General Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Santa-Fe-Trail-Cornerstones-Freedom\/dp\/051626396X\" title=\"The Santa Fe Trail\">The Santa Fe Trail<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judyalter.com\/\" title=\"Judy Alter\">Judy Alter<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Illustrator: <\/strong>n\/a<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Publisher: Children&#8217;s Press<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Publication Date:\u00a0<\/strong>1998<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Pages: 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Grade Range: <\/strong>3-5<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0-516-26396-X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Introduction and Summary The Santa Fe Trail by Judy Alter is a book about settlers traveling West in order to find a better life in the United States.\u00a0 However, much of what is talked about in the book is the different terrain that the settlers come across while on their journey out West.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}