MECC brings the nation's favorite education software program to the Internet! Your students can join an Internet wagon train where they collaborate with other classrooms to re-create an amazing journey across our country.
Each day, students receive an update of their travel progress and are presented with a new decision-making situation.
Wagons and wagon trains receive scores based on the quality of their decisions. The class with the highest score at the end of the trail wins a handsome trophy!
Teachers receive a guide to both on-line and off-line activities and suggestions for interdisciplinary links to language arts, science, and math.
Oregon Trail Online includes over one hundred on-line activities that are designed to correspond to daily destinations along the trail.
Classes share their ideas and experiences as part of a collaborative learning environment.
Trail experts host live "chat sessions" and help students better understand life in the 1800s.
The Oregon Trail Online Classroom Kit includes
- Seven weeks of daily on-line programming
- One teacher's manual
- Subscriber-only programming for one Internet e-mail address
- Subscriber-only access to the project's website for one classroom
- Poster size map of The Oregon Trail