WILD WILD WEST: COWBOYS

Grades 4-6 and Homeschool

Sarah Peterson

Hands on History

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Cowboys have been depicted in movies and television for decades – portraying their lives as non-stop adventures in the Wild West. This lesson plan covers the job of a 1800s cowboy and his life on a cattle drive and includes:

• INFORMATIONAL TEXT: Cowboys in the 1800s
• Vocabulary Words
• Activity: Complete Job Application
• INFORMATIONAL TEXT: Cows and the Cattle Drive
• Chart: Types of Bovine
• Activity: Create a Code to Live By!
• Diagram of Cattle Drive Positions 
• Activity: Analyze Cowboy Songs – Lyrics to Cowboy Songs
• Teacher’s Key to Cowboy Song Questions
• INFORMATIONAL TEXT: Branding the Cattle
• Activity: Name Your Ranch and Create a Brand
• INFORMATIONAL TEXT: Cowboy Clothes 
• INFORMATIONAL TEXT: Cookie, Chuckwagon and Food
• Activity: Make Some Cowboy Food – Recipes for Beans and Biscuits
• INFORMATIONAL TEXT: End of a Cattle Drive
• Review Worksheet and Teacher’s Key
• Review Game: Bingo words and clues
• Cowboy Jokes
• Coloring Page - Cowboys on the Prairie

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Check out my other Wild West Careers Lesson Plans:

          Outlaws and Lawmen

          Gold Miners

          Homesteaders

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