Learn More About Laura Ingalls Wilder By Jessica Bednarski Trail Ahead! Click on picture to continue

Introduction We have been reading Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, but you haven’t really learned too much about her, yet…The next few days you and your group are going to investigate her life in this WebQuest. Trail Ahead! Click on picture to continue Click on arrow to go back

Task Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in many places and did many things during her life. Your task is to create a timeline that shows the important events in her life.

Process These are some questions that you should make sure to answer on your search and information you may want to include on your timeline: What are the different places that Laura lived in? (make sure to keep track of the year each event takes place in) When was Laura born? When did she die? Did she get married or have any children? Is there anything else that took place in her life that you would like to include on a timeline?

Resources Here are the websites that you will be using for your search (Remember to keep track of the information that you find): Meet the Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura’s Prairie House Laura Ingalls Wilder Frontier Girl

Evaluation The most important thing is for all of the information on your timeline to be correct You should have at least seven events on your timeline (more than that is even better) I would like to see pictures for at least three of your events Neatness counts!!! Click here to see the rubric for this timeline assignmenthere

Rubric 0123 Accuracy of Information No informationFour or more errors One to three errors No errors Number of Events Included No eventsOnly one to three events included Four to six events included At least seven events included Number of Pictures No pictures or no well done pictures One picture well done picture Two well done pictures Three well done pictures Spelling and Grammar Six or more errors Four or five errors Two or three errors One or no errors NeatnessCannot be readHard to readCan be readCan easily be read Click arrow to go back to evaluation

Conclusion So Laura Ingalls Wilder really did a lot in her life and lived in many different places. You learned a lot about her life by doing this project and you also learned: about the time period that she lived in, how to research information on the internet, how to create a timeline and how to work as a group to complete a project. I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit about Laura. Your journey is complete! Click on log cabin to exit the presentation