Maintenance Director

Responsibilities
The Maintenance Director must be a leader at all times as his or her main function is to keep the group safe, healthy, and well. Many challenges face pioneers, as the maintenance director knows well. In journeying west, the Maintenance Director is responsible for studying the hardships that pioneers experience. Camping, supplies and disease are very important for the Maintenance Director to consider as he is constantly watching out for the other specialists. In order to study the difficulties at hand the Maintenance Director will record personal accounts in his or her journal, interview other pioneers, take photographs, and draw pictures. As the Maintenance Director, you need to use the Internet to answer the questions below.
 

Questions

• What hardships do you experience along The Oregon Trail?
• What types of sicknesses threaten the pioneers in your group?
• What challenges does camping pose to your group?
• What did you bring with you? How did you decide? How will you ration supplies so that they last for the entire journey?

Sites

• Outfitting For the Trail -  Learn more about what you are going to need for your journey and what you should leave behind by scanning this web site.
• Life and Death on the Oregon Trail -  As an emigrant, you will face many challenges along the trail. By reviewing this site you will learn more about the pace of the trail, the events that happened along the way, and the perils that travelers experienced.
• Disrupting the Natives -  Native Americans are one group of people that you will come into contact with as your continue your journey. After reading this site you will have a better understanding of the relationships between Native Americans and emigrants and how the two groups influenced one another.
• The Final Leg of the Trail -  You will find that the last part of the Oregon Trail is perhaps the toughest of all. To find out why, take a look at this web site!
• Jumping Off - When you are leaving home forever on a journey as tough as the Oregon Trail you can't take everything with you. Through this site you can learn more about waiting, supplies, wagons, congestion, and over-packing.
• Hardships - As a pioneer, you will face many challenges along the Oregon Trail. Accidents, cholera, weather, and river crossings are some of the many difficulties to be experienced!
• Camping - Day after day you will experience the same routine. Learn about the rigid schedule you will follow and about the experience of camping.