Outreach Programs

Let Living History Farms come to your 2^nd-5^th grade classroom! LHF offers the following curriculum-connected programs which involve a mixture of multimedia presentation, artifacts, and hands-on activities, built around a central theme.

Availability & Cost

• Available Mondays & Fridays (excluding holidays), November – December 2024.
• $150 per 1-hour program, mileage included.
• Each classroom or homeroom requires its own 1-hour program.
• Must be booked 30 days in advance
• Available within 60 miles of Living History Farm (see map below)

Programs

Ioway Crafts

The Ioway in 1700 had to use the resources available to them to make the items they needed in their daily lives. You will learn through presentations, artifacts, and hands-on activities how the Ioway used the resources available to them to cook, to farm, to hunt, to craft tools, and so much more.

Your students will learn to make rope from natural fibers and a clay pot in the style of the Ioway.

Ioway Culture

What was daily life like for the Ioway around the year 1700?  Answer this and many other questions through presentations, artifacts, and hands-on activities. Learn about the homes the Ioway built, their way of farming, and their daily routines in 1700.

Your students will think like historians by analyzing reproduction artifacts, learn some words in the Ioway language, and play some typical Ioway games!

Daily Life of a Pioneer Family

Your students will learn about how and why a family from the east or even from another country would choose to move to Iowa and how they would travel. Learn about how they would build their house and start their farm. And what would they do for fun on the prairie?

Pioneer Crafts

Through hands-on activities, learn about how the family would build their home; plant, cultivate, and harvest their crops; and make and repair the things they needed in their daily life on the frontier.

Programs available within this range: