Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, WorksheetsDate Posted: 6/10/2008
What would life have been like in a sod house? This group of activities will allow students to use their senses to see, smell, and feel what it would have been like to live on the prairie long ago. Included in an OurStory module, this activity is 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.
African American soldiers were allowed to enlist in the regular peacetime army of the United Stat...
parent guide, children’s literature, literacy, house, the West, picture book, family activity, reading, social history, westward expansion, Our Story, OurStory, everyday life, family, prairie, settler, Homestead Act, architecture, Great Plains, migration
A story of life on the prairie.
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