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Title:
| Pioneer Life: Settling on the Homestead |
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Description:
| These sites are about daily life on the frontier. Learn about frontier towns and the chores and games that the pioneers participated in. Read the original Homestead Act that prompted many people to move West. Includes videos and historical photographs. There are links to eThemes Resources on pioneer food, sod houses, and hardships along the Oregon Trail. |
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Grade Level:
| 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| PBS: Frontier House: Video Diaries
Watch these video diaries to see how modern families struggled to live like pioneers. Find out what resources they had to use.
PBS: Frontier House: Evaluations
Read what the experts have to say about whether these modern families would have survived on the frontier. What mistakes did they make, and what would you have done differently? Click on "Clune" and "Glenn" to read more.
ThinkQuest: Pioneer Life in America
Learn more about the daily routines and hardships of pioneers. Find out about important buildings in each town, such as the blacksmith shop and the general store. Includes activities and a quiz. NOTE: There is a link to an unmoderated questbook.
ThinkQuest: A Pioneer's Journey to the Frontier
This student-created site has information about life along the trail as well as what the pioneers did once they arrived at their Westward destination.
Nebraska Studies
Explore the links on the left to learn how the settlers found water, built shelter, and battled with harsh weather. Includes many historical photographs.
Pioneer Camera
View historical photographs that show pioneer life taken by Fred Hultstrand.
Living History Farms
Explore this site to learn about the types of buildings that were typically found in frontier towns.
Pioneer Town Activity
This page has printable templates for creating your own pioneer town.
Nine Patch Quilt Activity
Pioneers often made quilts, and this page has a printable document that students can use to decorate their own quilt.
Coming to Canada
This site is about Canadian settlers, but most of the experiences these people had were very similar to American settlers. Read about how they built their homes and the types of communities that developed.
PBS: Frontier Life: Homestead History
Click on "Take a Journey" to make a virtual visit to Montana in the late 1880s.
Scroll down for essays about life on the homestead. The reading level may be too difficult for students, but the information is useful to teachers.
PBS: Sun River Homestead
Read about three sisters who traveled West to become teachers. Click on "Next" to advance through the site.
PBS: The Homestead Act
Read the text from the Homestead Act of 1862 that prompted many people to move West.
Household Furnishings of Our Pioneer Settlers
View a few images of items that were found in many pioneer homes. Click on another link to see more.
Utah History To Go: Pioneer Girls
Read interesting notes about the lives of six pioneer girls in Utah.
Pioneer Life in Ohio
Read about pioneer food and medicine and how the barter system worked.
eThemes Resource: Pioneer Life: Food
These sites have information about the types of food the pioneers ate and how they prepared and preserved their meals. Includes recipes for johnnycakes, brown sugar candy, snow ice cream, and molasses cake. Also includes some recipes for Native American and early African American dishes. There are links to eThemes Resources on pioneer life and westward expansion.
Pioneer Life: Sod Houses
These sites are about houses made from sod that many pioneers built and lived in during the 1800s. See photographs of past and reconstructed sod homes in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Dakotas. Read letters from people in which they talk about life in sod houses and watch a video tour of a home. Includes a few activities for making a sod house in the classroom. There are links to eThemes Resources on grasslands and pioneer life.
Westward Expansion: Hardships
These sites are about the various hardships the pioneers faced as they traveled to the West. Includes weather information, accidents, and diseases. Read personal narratives and stories.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.7, 4.3, 3, 4, 2, 5, 6, 7
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