A 25-slide PowerPoint Presentation for the Seminary Lesson 148: The Trek across Iowa; D&C 136:1–18

Show below is a preview of this lesson; the lesson title poster, Mirrored Article of Faith 4, and a preview of a few of the slides included in the follow-along powerpoint for this lesson. 

Shown below is a preview of this lesson, the lesson title poster, one of the puppets (Wilford Woodruff on horseback), the activity wheel, Wagon train questions, and a preview of a few of the slides included in the follow-along powerpoint for this lesson. 

 Shown below is a preview of the lesson title poster, attention activity strips, attention activity thread puzzle, handout, and a preview of a couple of the Follow-Along PowerPoint Slides included in this lesson. 

A complete lesson plan about the Saints finding Sanctuary in Utah

Use this hymn to teach about the pioneers.

A complete lesson plan about the Journey West, Part 2

A terrific article about the Handcart Pioneers

A complete lesson plan about the Journey West, Part 1

A fun game to use when teaching about the Mormon Battalion

A great talk about the pioneers by Elder Hafen

A condensed version of the "Mortensen Family History"

Reenact the Saints' Trek with your students.

A Battlefield Game specifically about the Mormon Battalion

CES Resources for The Trek West

The Tim Holder family visited the Mormon Handcart Visitors center in March 1999, driving to Rawlins, Wyoming and then north east to Devils Gate and Independence Rock. Tim’s great-grandfather, Lars Mortensen, crossed the plains by handcart in 1856 with the Willie Handcart company. 

An overview of the Saints' Trek

A complete lesson plan about the Mormon Battalion

A first-person account of George Frederick Housley with the Martin Handcart Company

Lesson ideas to teach your students about the pioneers and what they went through

Story told by Emma Housley Auger, Granddaughter to George Frederick Housley and Marshall Franklin Allen

A wonderful "application" activity

A talk by Elder Eyring about the pioneers

More than 150 years ago, a group of Latter-day Saints began a trek to the Rocky Mountains that was both farther and earlier than the famous Mormon pioneer wagon train of 1847.

Video clips about the Saints leaving Nauvoo

Lesson ideas about the Pioneers' Trek