Oregon Trail Curriculum Project

The purpose of the Oregon Trail Curriculum Project is to provide ready-to-use lesson plans and teaching resources to address oversimplified and packaged curriculum about the Oregon Trail. The teaching materials featured on this website are informed by an anticolonial framework to support responsible teaching and learning about the Oregon Trail.

Website Features

• Useful curriculum materials informed by an anticolonial framework to help teachers present a deeper and more complicated understanding of the Oregon Trail
• Ready-to-teach lesson plans that include teaching procedures and student handouts
• Reflections from students and educators using the curriculum

Dipnet fishing at the Cul-De-Sac of Celilo Falls (Columbia River) around 1957, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, USA. (Public Domain)