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Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

July 3, 2023 | 7 Comments
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I have the Trail of Tears for kids free lapbook and unit study. Also, grab more ideas on my lapbook ideas and on my best homeschool unit studies pages.

In one of the saddest episodes of history, men, women, and children were taken from their land, herded into makeshift forts with minimal facilities and food, then forced to march a thousand miles.

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

Between the years of 1684 and 1835, over 30 treaties chipped away at the Cherokee Indians’ original 135,000 square miles of land.

In the spring of 1837 and continuing through the fall of 1838, the Cherokee Indians were rounded up and corralled into stockades.

This began the Trail of Tears, a 1,200-mile journey to unfamiliar territory.

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  • The Trail of Tears for Kids
  • The Trail of Tears for Kids Words to Know
  • The Trail of Tears Free Minibooks
  • More Trail of Tears Activities
  • More Lapbook Ideas
  • How to Get the Free Trail of Tears Lapbook

The Trail of Tears for Kids

Taking our time to complete this lapbook about the Cherokee and The Trail of Tears was just the pizazz we needed to get back into our groove after moving.

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

We read about Sequoyah and his contribution to the Cherokee language and how his people viewed him.  Like most of my minibooks, you can use the information we added or use your own research.

Cherokee culture continued to flourish with the invention of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoyah in 1821

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

I try to provide some information always on the minibooks to help in case you have made more lesson plans than you have time at the moment.  It happens to all of us so I like minibooks that are easy to put together.

The Trail of Tears for Kids Words to Know

Next, look at some of these words and events to know.

  • Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the “Indian Removal Act. The white communities turned on their Indian neighbors and the U.S. Government decided it was time for the Cherokees to leave behind their farms, their land and their homes.
  • “Nunna daul Tsuny”.The route they traversed and the journey itself became known as “The Trail of Tears” or, as a direct translation from Cherokee, “The Trail Where They Cried”
  • President Andrew Jackson. Led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast He signs the Indian Removal Act which leads to Trail of Tears.
  • Davy Crockett. The famous Tennessee Congressman who protested the Indian Removal Act.
  • Gen. Winfield Scott. The general who led the forced Cherokee removal.
  • Oklahoma. The Indian Territory as it was called then that the Cherokees were forced to move to.

Then we did an easy Did You Know minibook. Tiny wanted to take a bunny trail off this unit study to talk about Davy Crockett because he was against the Indian Removal Act.

The Trail of Tears Free Minibooks

Normally, we would venture away from our topic, but this time we stuck to it because we had such a long stretch of time in finishing it.

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

 

This next minibook was one I wanted Tiny to do so he could think about the injustices in the world today and to read about the Bible’s view on it.

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

The terrible injustice done to all the civilized tribes at that time should touch any heart young and old and this gives your child a chance to voice his opinion on it.

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

Then I made a few pieces to decorate the front of the lapbook. 

Tiny used part of it and the other part of his lapbook, he chose a picture of a Cherokee chief to color.

There are some beautiful free pictures to color that are not babyish found on First People and that is where we got this picture.

Front of Trail of Tears Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook
Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

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  1. Tina Robertson says

    December 11, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    Thank you, thank you. I hate making errors.

    I know they are part of blogging, but still.. I am SO thankful for you pointing it out to me. Thanks again!

    Reply
  2. Laura at Mommy Maleta says

    January 4, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Hi Tina! I love this lapbook. I will be featuring it tomorrow at the Thoughtful Spot Blog Hop!

    Reply
    • Tina Robertson says

      January 5, 2015 at 5:10 am

      Hey Laura,

      Thank You so much!!!! We loved this lapbook. It was such a good time to talk about the ugly side of history. Thank you for the feature, love your party and thanks for scooting by today.

      Reply
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