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Small Groups
- Have students research, write, and perform a short play about some part of pioneer life on the prairie (e.g., home, school, community, etc.). Puppetry could also be used. Divide the students into small groups and have them choose an area of pioneer life that interests them.
- Have students create their own traveling exhibit of North Dakota trying to entice people to come and settle on the prairies of North Dakota.
- In groups of two to four people, have students create a T-Chart (link below) with each letter of the alphabet placed in the left-hand column, write a summarizing statement in the right-hand column next to each letter of the alphabet in the left-hand column.
- (e.g., A = Early settlers shared many types of Activities and games with family and friends to entertain themselves. B = When children played Baseball, they made the ball from tightly-wound twine.)
- T-Chart
- In small groups of two to three people, have students make up a chant or song to show their knowledge of a vocabulary word before sharing with the class.
