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10 Westward Expansion History Fun Coloring Pages

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Today, I have 10 Westward Expansion coloring pages that enhance all the free unit studies here or ones that you’re planning. Also, you love my page BEST Westward Ho Unit Study and Lapbook!

Sometimes the boys want to create their own covers for the lapbooks or notebooks from coloring pages.

10 Westward Expansion History Fun Coloring Pages. If you're studying about The Oregon Trail, Lewis and Clark or Westward Ho, your kids will love these pages. Click here to grab them!

I know with younger children, it can be hard to find history coloring pages based on everyday life.

But these coloring pages work well with middle and high school too if your kid still loves to color.

WESTWARD HO HISTORY FUN COLORING PAGES

I made sure they have no baby-ish looking clip art.

I have always tried to use museum quality coloring pages when the coloring mood did strike with my boys.

Also, instead of me adding titles on pages or naming the pages, this allows you to use the clip art/coloring pages any way you want to.

Whether it is a cover page, notebooking page, journal page or just to enrich a topic. You have the flexibility.

HOW TO EASILY BRING HISTORY ALIVE

Here is what the 10 page download contains. I put a few key words to explain each picture on the page. This way you can use the coloring pages as title pages too.

Page 3:  Native American on horseback,
Page 4: Lewis and Clark Trek,
Page 5: Lewis and Clark and The Piegan,
Page 6: Lewis and Clark Exploring Rivers,
Page 7: The Plains Indians,
Page 8: Pioneer Life,
Page 9: Moving West,
Page 10: Westward Ho,
Page 11: Settlers, and
Page 12: Fur Trappers and Mountainmen

Grab your fun copy below!

10 Westward Expansion History Fun Coloring Pages. If you're studying about The Oregon Trail, Lewis and Clark or Westward Ho, your kids will love these pages. Click here to grab them!

Also, these coloring pages go well with these free unit studies and lapbooks:

Hugs and love ya,

6 Unit Study Resources: Mountain Men – Explorers of the West

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Whether you’re studying about the American Frontier, fur trade or mountain living, you’ll bring history alive through studying the tough life of mountain men.

Today, I rounded up six unit study resources to grab for a mountain men unit study. Besides explorers and fur traders, they were some of America’s first trail blazers.

Whether you're studying about the American Frontier, fur trade or mountain living, you'll bring history alive through studying the tough life of mountain men.

Mountain Men Trailblazers

This 3 page teacher’s guide has vocabulary words like ploo and rendezvous along with teaching skills of self-sufficiency and hardiness. I also like that it incorporates learning about the importance of rivers to mountain men. So, you can add a bit of geography, history, and science.

Next, this super helpful free teacher’s guide and lessons about the beaver is chock full of information.

It has a unit on fur trade, mountain men lifestyle, and legends of the mountain men.

And even though it mentions items in a trunk, it’s really helpful in understanding artifacts and every day items used by mountain men.

Read about the items they used and a few them look like they could be easily made.

This next fun guide talks about the importance of being able to identify animal tracks along with the animal tracks labeled. Click here for Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

It has a handwritten letter which is a primary source and a lesson about beavers.

Hands-on History and Geography

More units like the Language of a Trapper, Rendezvous, Mountain Man Tales, and Indian Wives of the Mountain Men are a few of the fun and interesting units in this expansive unit.

This is an interesting read for your middle or high school kid. While it doesn’t have pictures, it’s the diary of Jedediah Strong Smith, a mountain men. It describes the perils he faced each day.

Lastly, this website Mountain Men: Pathfinders of the West has a lot of background information about the fur trade and the ways of the mountain men.

Download them and add to them a unit study about geography or use them for a mini unit study.

Also, you’ll like my posts:

Whether you're studying about the American Frontier, fur trade or mountain living, you'll bring history alive through studying the tough life of mountain men. Click here to grab these fun and free 6 resources!

Hugs and love ya,

The Ultimate Guide to Brave Explorers (Great and Small)

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Whether they were the world's bravest explorers or the world barely noticed their bravery, this ultimate guide to great explorers, both great and small will give you a pivot point to learning in depth about some of these fascinating explorers and their journeys. Click here!

Whether they were the world’s bravest explorers or the world barely noticed their bravery, this ultimate guide to great explorers, both great and small, will give you a starting point for in-depth learning about some of these fascinating explorers and their journeys.

Learning about great explorers and seeing events, places, and everyday life unfold through their eyes allows you and your children to go to places you may have never been. If nothing else, it will give you a glimpse of the determination, bravery, and fortitude explorers exhibited. Hopefully, you’ll come away with both a more adventurous spirit and a deeper respect for other parts of the world.

Ideas for Geography Inspiration

I’ve alphabetized the explorers by their last name to make it easier for you to locate each one. In cases when an explorer’s last name is not given or known, I’ve listed each by his only name or first name known.

Sometimes more than one explorer navigated the same region but presented their journeys from a different view. I think it’s easier to list them by name so that you get the full benefit of their individual perspectives, instead of breaking down this ultimate to great explorers by the region each explored.

General posts, downloads, printables and unit studies.

The Great Age of Exploration (1400–1550) 48 page teacher guide on a variety of explorers.
Curriculum Guide on Circumnavigation 12 pages.
Hispanic Exploration in America 9 page lesson plan using primary sources.
Those Who Have Come Before Me 7 page lesson plan about space exploration.
Mapping Skills for K-3.
European Explorers of North and South America 13 page lesson plan.
Free Continent Map.
Explore the Explorers Online
Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest
European Exploration & Trade 22 pages.		Early Explorers 12 page teacher guide on a variety of explorers.
European Exploration, Trade and Colonization 22 free unit guide.
The Age of Exploration 6 page helpful background information.
Exploring the World 12 page lesson with photos of landmarks.
Exploring the Moon Educators Guide – 158 page free download.
Hands-on Explorers Unit Study.
Da Gama, Vespucci, and Balboa Lesson
The Great Age of Exploration 48 pages.


Hands-on Ideas and Activities.

Make a 3-dimensional globe.
Learning longitude and latitude using an orange – 6 page download.
Free Explorers Lapbook.
Age of Exploration Ideas – Taste foods from different countries.
Free Writing prompts About Explorers.
First Explorers Flipbook Project
North American Explorers WebQuest
The Discovery of the Americas Play		You’ll love the free timeline figures and coloring pages here for many of the explorers.
Make a balloon globe.
European Explorers Word Search Puzzle.
Make Explorers Ships with Toilet Paper Tube Sail – for art.
Hands-on History Explorer 48 page free curriculum.
Postcards from the Explorers.
Early Explorer Journal Writing

 

 

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Free book at Gutenberg.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Biography
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Slideshow
10 Facts On The Spanish Explorer.
 

Balboa Explorers PowerPoint
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Lesson Plan

Daniel Boone North American Explorer

Free Lapbook and Unit Study.
Read Boone’s own account of his “Adventures,” published in 1874.
Boone: Tennessee’s Western Frontier 16 page download.		The Wilderness Road.
Daniel Boone Picture Book Lesson
Daniel Boone Trailblazer 7 pages.
Daniel Boone and the American Frontier 21 pages.

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Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain Powerpoint.
Samuel De Champlain New France Lesson Plan 20 pages.		Champlain in America
Champlain Reaches the Lake 32 pages.

Christopher Columbus

Columbus 10-page workbook.
Activities 64-pages of coloring pages and activities.
Columbus: Hero or Villian.		My first biography 8-page download.
Voyages of Columbus timeline.
Who was Christopher Columbus? 6-page lesson plan.

Also for learning about Christopher Columbus, look at my series 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 5 For Middle and High School.

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Francisco Coronado Lesson Plan
Coronado: Misfortune’s Explorer Lesson Plan		Coronado Biography for Kids
Coronado Historical Summary

Hernando Cortes

Hernando Cortes Poster Activity
Cortes Compare and Contrast Lesson		Conquistadors: Hernan Cortes Lesson Plan
Cortes: Fact Vs. Fiction

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Bartolomeu Dias

The Portuguese Explorers – 28 page download.
Social Sciences HISTORY Teacher’s Guide – 14 page download.
-1500). 3 page download.
Bright Ideas Press


Sir Francis Drake

Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
Background Information, 2-page download.
The Spanish Armada.
About the Golden Hind.
Things You May Not Know About Drake.		Vocabulary words for a unit study.
Explorers of the World.
1580: Drake Completes Navigation.
Coloring Pages.
Drake’s Circumnavigation Lesson Plan

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Vasco da Gama

Reading Comprehension Quiz.
Early Modern Britain 96 page teacher’s guide
Vasco da Gama PBS World Explorers		 Europe Discovers the Riches of India.
Vasco de Gama Finds a Sea Route to India.
Vasco da Gama Lesson Plan

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Henry Hudson

The search for the Northwest Passage.
Henry Hudson Free Games and Activities.		On the Half Moon with Henry Hudson Free 70 page Guide.
Free 56 page Unit Study & Lesson Plans.
Henry Hudson Lesson Plan 19 pages.

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Juan Ponce de Leon

Ponce De Leon: Explorers for Kids
Juan Ponce De Leon Lesson Plan
Ponce De Leon, Aztecs, and Cortez
Ponce De Leon 5th Grade Writing Lesson		Ponce De Leon 5th Grade Lesson Plan
History of Ponce de Leon in Florida
Ponce de Leon Printable Biography
Ponce De Leon Printable Coloring Page

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Ferdinand Magellan

How Magellan circumnavigated the globe.
Colonization: for Gold, God, and Glory.
Ferdinand Magellan Voyages of Discovery YouTube		Magellan’s voyage around the world.

 

Ferdinand Magellan: A Man of His Time.


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Francisco Pizarro

Conquistadors: Francisco Pizarro.
Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas – 82 page free guide		Incan Times.
Cortes & Pizarro Teacher’s Guide – 2 page.

Marco Polo

Free Unit Study, Lapbook and Hands-on Ideas.
On the Road with Marco Polo		Marco Polo and the Silk Road Lesson Plan
Marco Polo Resource Guide 48 pages.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

4-page educator’s guide for Raleigh’s Page.
Sir Walter Raleigh Biography
Walter Raleigh Video Lesson		 Birth of a Colony.
Sir Walter Raleigh and South America
Early Virginia Exploration 21 pages.

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando De Soto: Explorers for Kids
Conquest of America by Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto and Exploration of Florida		De Soto’s Trip Through South Carolina
De Soto in America
De Soto’s Discovery of the Mississippi

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Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci Worksheet
Amerigo Vespucci: Explorers for Kids		Amerigo Vespucci 5th Grade Lesson Plan
Amerigo Vespucci Biography

Videos

Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners.
The contributions of female explorers.
Age of Exploration.
Age of Exploration – A Short Documentary Film

Also, check out The Anatomy of a Well Laid Out Homeschool High School Geography Curriculum, Homeschool Geography Go To Resources and John Muir Spring Unit Study (and Hands-on Geography Ideas).

Are you interested in more of my Ultimate Guides? Of course you are.
Read Lewis and Clark Expedition – The Ultimate Guide, Ultimate Guide to Learning Activities in a Jar or Bottle, The Ultimate Guide for New Homeschoolers and The Unrivaled Guide to Civil War Activities for Kids.

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