Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Reference Materials, Lessons & ActivitiesDate Posted: 6/10/2008
Students will learn about life on the prairie and in sod houses in this OurStory module, entitled Life in a Sod House. The module includes the interactive activity Building a Sod House, hands-on activities and a list of recommended readings related. OurStory is a series of modules designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of objects from the Museum's vast collections, quality children's literature, and engaging hands-on activities. Ideal for afterschool use, OurStory resources will allow students to think critically, to be creative, and to achieve academic standards both in and out of the classroom.
Interdisciplinary, Multiple activities, Museum education
African American soldiers were allowed to enlist in the regular peacetime army of the United Stat...
the West, Our Story, Homestead Act, Great Plains, children&apos, architecture, family, homesteaders, settler, prairie, Children's, s literature, westward expansion, house, ourstory, social history, everyday life, migration, dugout, Sod
A story of life on the prairie.
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