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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pioneer Farm Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore pioneer farm life and the types of cooking and ingredients available. They recreate a pioneer version of a sno-cone and discuss why crushed ice was used more often than snow in this recipe.
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Handout
Other

Food Timeline: Westward Ho! Wagon Train Cookery

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a realistic view of how pioneers in wagon trains kept, stored, and cooked food on their months-long journeys out west. Learn what kinds of food they took and how much it cost them.
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Handout
Utah Education Network

Uen: Heritage Gateways: Food

For Students 9th - 10th
Click through eighteen pages of information about food and cooking as it was experienced by people traveling by wagon train to Utah, and as they began to settle into homesteads and communities. This site began as part of the 1997...
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Handout
Other

Recipes on the Oregon Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
With information gathered from a wide variety of primary resources, this site offers not only recipes that pioneers and homesteaders used, but also tips on packing a wagon for a cross-country trip, and other words of advice for wagon...