Let Living History Farms come to you! LHF is proud to offer five new outreach programs this year, which involve a mixture of Power Point presentation, artifacts, and hands-on activities, built around a central theme.
For $40 per 1-hour program, plus round trip mileage for one interpreter, children in grades 3-6 can have an all-access pass to the past. Each session can accommodate 25 students and each classroom will need to order their own program. Choose between the following programs:
Availability: Weds–Fri, November 2, 2011 – March 16, 2012
Fees: $40 per 1-hour program + $0.555 / mile round trip
Discover through hands-on activities how the Ioway made pots for cooking and storage, made rope with native materials, and created the tools that they needed in their everyday life. Each student will make a pot to take home!
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What was life like for the Ioway on a daily basis around the year 1700? Find out as you learn how the Ioway prepared and preserved their food, built their homes, made their clothing, and traded with the French. Learn words from their language as you sing songs and experience their story telling traditions. At the end of the program, enjoy a buffalo jerky snack.
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How did the pioneers get to Iowa, and what brought them here? What did they need to do to set up their home and farms? What was daily life like for the pioneer family who settled in Iowa? Learn the answers to these and many more questions as you participate in hands-on activities like learning to drive a team of oxen and plotting out your farm. Of course it was not all work and no play; learn some typical games played by children on the prairie as well.
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Families on the prairie made use of the environment around them to answer their daily needs. These crafts included making quilts, making corn husk people for toys, and so on.
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How do historians know what they know about the past? Learn what a historian has to do when researching the past. What can we learn from looking at maps, or reading old journals and letters? What can you learn about the past from items left behind by people?
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