Learners research the Conestoga wagon. In this early transportation lesson plan, young scholars use primary documents to research how the invention of the Conestoga wagon improved transportation.

Read this essay about the National Road, its construction, and development of towns along its route.

A discussion of the building of the National Road, its route, and importance to the opening of the West. From the National Park Service.

By using a slideshow presentation and a Conestoga wagon project, students will experience different ways people have conquered the human and social need for transportation in America. Students will begin by studying ancient and Native...