Sites-ressources :

• Cowboys of the Wild West live on
  "The traditions of America's cowboys are alive and well on the Great Plains despite modern technology encroaching on their way of life on the prairie, as Kevin Connolly found when he visited Montana and the Dakotas...
  They are still - for now at least - important figures in American ranching, prized for their ability to follow cattle on horseback over the roughest of ground."
  Download the podcast.
  (BBC)
  
  

• Cowboy (Wikipedia)
  1 History
  1.1 Paniolo
  1.2 Cowboys of other nations
  2 Working cowboys
  3 Rodeo cowboys
  4 Cowgirls
  5 Popular Culture
  6 In art and culture...

• Cowboys (americanwest.com)
  "Here you can round-up all the information you'll ever need about Cowboys!"

• Diamond R Ranch (nationalcowboymuseum.org)
  Tours / Exhibits / Songs / Games / Characters / Printables
  
  
  
  

• What do cowboys do all day ? Welcome to the Wonderful World of Cowboys! (nathanbeach.com)

• Cowboys and Cowgirls (cyberrodeo.com)

Cliparts :

• "Out West" (jsmagic.net)
  Animals - Architecture - Backgrounds - Bars, Dividers - Cowboys - Indians - Miscellaneous -
  Paintings - Cowboy
  Paintings - Indian
  Photos - Cowboy
  Plant Life- Range Gear & Tack ransportation - Women
  
  

• Western cliparts (horse-feathers.com)
  
  

• Cliparts :(jsmagic.net)
  
  
  
  
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  stetson Lien modifié	cowboy boots	spurs

Vocabulary :

• A bolo tie (sometimes bola tie)
  "is a type of necktie consisting of a piece of cord or braided leather with decorative metal tips or aglets (aiguillettes) secured with an ornamental clasp or slide."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• Cowboy (cartermuseum.org)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Cowhand's Clothing (cartermuseum.org)
  
  
  
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Cowboy Quiz (nationalcowboymuseum.org)

• Images of the Western Cowboy (.doc) - (History on the Net)
  "Describe how each of the images ... relate to the Western Cowboy."

• The Life of a Cowboy - "Match the pictures on the left to the statements on the right." (.doc)
  - (History on the Net)

Lesson plans :

• The Cowboy Life (Education World)
  "Travel back in time to discover what life was like for people of the early American West."
  Objectives : Students
  - learn about life in the old west; they relay that knowledge through a variety of activities/projects.
  - work with peers to assemble meaningful presentations.

• The Cowboy's Gear (nps.gov)
  "1. Students will learn about authentic cowboy clothing and the purpose of each article.
  2. Students will be introduced to the equipment used by cowboys on a daily basis (tack).
  3. The students will learn about the cost of equipment and how the cowboy needed to manage their wages well in order to purchase the equipment."
  

Webquests :

• Cowboys, Yee-Haw! - a webquest (projects.edtech.sandi.net)
  " In this unit you will learn about America's hero, the cowboy.
  You will learn how,when and why he fit into the history of our country.
  You will learn about boom towns that turned into ghost towns.
  You will find out what a cowboy did from sun up to sun down and you will learn to understand some cowboy lingo."
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Country music. A short illustrated history
  "Start the movie , sit back and enjoy the music. Then play the game."
  Created by Renée Maufroid.

Games TO PRINT :

• Games : Mazes / Word Find Puzzles / Crossword Puzzle (nationalcowboymuseum.org)

Songs and Poems :

• Should`ve Been a Cowboy - Toby Keith :
  "I should've been a Cowboy
  I should'be learned to rope and ride
  Wearing my six-shooter riding by pony on a cattle drive
  Stealing the young girl's hearts
  Just like Gene and Roy
  Singing those campfire songs...
  I might of had a side kick with a funny name
  Running wild through the hills chasing Jesse James"
  - with the VIDEO (YouTube)

• Songs (animated) - Listen, read the lyrics and sing! (nationalcowboymuseum.org)
  
  

  What a Cowboy Knows

  I Love to Ride My Pony

  Read, Write and Recite

  
  
  

• Cowboy's Dream (kididdles.com) :
  "Last night as I lay on the prairie,
  And looked at the stars in the sky,
  And I wondered if ever a cowboy
  Could drift to that sweet by and by."
  
  
• Cowboy Take Me Away - Dixie Chicks :
  "I said I wanna touch the earth
  I wanna break it in my hands
  I wanna grow something wild and unruly...
  Cowboy take me away"

• Cowboy's Sweetheart by LeAnn Rimes :
  "I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart
  I wann learn to rope and ride
  I wanna ride through the plains and the desert
  Out west of The Great Divide
  I wanna hear the coyotes singing..."
  
  
• Rhinestone cowboy by Glen Campbell :
  "I've been walking these streets so long...
  Like a rhinestone cowboy
  Riding out on a horse in a star spangled rodeo"

• Cowboy Poetry: National Park (savvytraveler.publicradio.org)

Cartoons :

• They look like cowboys to me (cartoonstock.com)
  
  

Videos :

• Wild West Buy Nothing Day
  Even cowboys celebrate Buy Nothing Day.
  (YouTube)