Hands on History

Objectives

Students will:

• Actively participate in 1900-era farm chores like making rope, churning butter, or washing clothes.

• Observe and use historic artifacts.

• Describe the responsibilities of family members on a 1895 farm.

• Determine some needs and wants of early 1900s families and how they met those needs and satisfied their wants.

• Describe how the natural environment (prairie) around a pioneer farm looked around 1900 in this area and how humans have changed it.

• Identify bison and their effect on the prairie.

Vocabulary

• Natural resource – something found in nature that is valuable to humans

• Responsibility – a job or task that a certain person is expected to do

• Human needs – things that are necessary for survival such as food, water, clothing, and shelter

• Human wants – things that are not necessary for survival but that make life more pleasurable

• Produce – create

• Consume – use up

• Century – 100 years

• Preservation – keeping something the way it is so that it can be used later

• Compost – decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer

• Organic – (referring to food or farming methods) produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents

• Historic artifacts – human-made objects that are culturally significant (e.g. tools, clothing, art)

Programs are adjusted to be age appropriate. All programs address the TEKS goal of engaging students in hands-on investigations of the natural world.

For specific grade-level Social Studies TEKS that may be included in our programs, see our TEKS chart below.

Pre and Post Trip Materials (PDF Format)

• Hands-on History Checklist

• Hands-on History Pre-Trip Activity (Farm Pre-Trip Quiz)

• Hands-on History Post-Trip Activity (Farm Resources)

Please see the group field trips for more information about scheduling a field trip