Pony Express Home Station: Pony Express Route

Learners identify the best route between various locations on a map. In this map skills instructional activity, students use a landscape picture map to find routes to and from certain places. Learners use map markers to highlight the...

Fourth graders will draw a map showing the route they travel from home to school.

Fourth graders research the Pony Express. In this Pony Express lesson, 4th graders discover the reasons behind the development of this business and the technology that ended it.

Students plot the route of the Pony Express. They discover the kinds of terrain it crossed. They calculate the number of legs needed to cover the distance of its total route.

A short multiple-choice quiz on the Pony Express.

Kids learn about the Pony Express from the Old West on this site. Riders would swap horses at stations to deliver the mail faster to and from California.

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco provides this article from the 1925 San Francisco Newsletter on the Pony Express, the first transcontinental U.S. Mail service.

Fourth graders answer four math questions based on their reading of a short story on the history of the Pony Express.

Vandalism or self expression? Watch this short video that walks viewers through the history of and debate about graffiti, and then decide for yourself.

Fourth graders read aged letters that describe communities or stops along the route of the early Pony Express. Each day they mark on a map where the letters come from and chart the Pony Express route. They compare to today's mail and...