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Games
- Have students create a Frontier Era of North Dakota Board Game (rubric below) using the frontier era questions provided in the Teacher Resource Guide.
- Have students play these games using questions from the text: BINGO, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Trivial Pursuit, etc.
(The following site is a wonderful site with templates, directions, and examples of Jeopardy, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, or Hollywood Squares by using PowerPoint.) Suggested categories: Explorers of North Dakota; Fur Traders of North Dakota; Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery; The Role of the American Indian and the Success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; Military Life on the Frontier.
- Frontier Era of North Dakota Bingo—Have students fill in the blank boxes with frontier era words provided below. Have a list of words created along with the definition and cut them into small pieces. The caller will select a card, read the definition, and the students will place a marker on the word that matches the definition. When BINGO is called, the student must read the word and give the definition before it is counted.
