Curated OER
"Professional" Settlement of Arkansas
Eighth graders examine the physical geography of Arkansas played and instrumental role in the settlement of the state.
Curated OER
The Homestead Act of 1682
In this American West worksheet, learners read about the Homestead Act of 1682. Students read 8 paragraphs and complete the 3 activities for the worksheet.
Other
The Family Farmer
The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of farm families, and serves as a window into the small-scale food production process that modern day consumers have become estranged from.
Other
Mesopotamia: Challenge: The Farming Year
Try a hand at farming to help your father while he is gone and to provide food for the family in his absence. Learn the fundamentals of farming in the Mesopotamia region from forcing floods to hopefully harvesting after the growing season.
Family Education
Family Education: Family Vacations: Visiting Farms
These farms may not be close to you, but will give you some good ideas about visiting family farms in your area. It will do your heart good to see your kids doing farm chores.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Real Dirt on Farmer John: Family Farms in America
Trace the evolution in American agriculture with this interactive timeline. Learn how the history of one small Illinois farm reflects the larger changes, decade by decade.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of the Family Farm
Learn about the status of farming as a career, investigate the management of a family farm, and examine one recent farm crisis in this lesson plan.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: An American Family Farm
Captioned slideshow depicting what everyday life is like for a family on a farm in Iowa.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Farming, Forestry, and Fishing
Occupational Outlook overview of careers in the agricultural production job family. Site includes nature of the industry, working conditions, lists of occupations, wages, and outlook, as well as links to sites with more information....
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the School Bus: Martinsburg, Indiana 1939
It's an early winter morning in rural Indiana, and Russell Bishop is getting ready to drive his school bus route. His daughter Mary Lou is with him, and his double-deep orange school bus is parked outside the family farm's barn. An...
Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels: Farming in the 1920s: 1920s World Events
Find a list of events in many categories that occurred in the 1920s.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Our Story: Life in a Sod House
Imagine moving into a house made out of sod that you and your family had to build in the middle of a prairie! Find great information and activities that will help you understand how it felt to live on the prairie.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Female Farmers, a Growing Trend in America
National Public Radio presents an interesting article on the growing number of U.S. farms managed by women. Meet two women who are doing it, and enjoy links to related stories on women in agriculture.
Starfall
Starfall: Dragon Goes to the Farm
This interactive fiction ebook focuses a family and a pet dragon go to visit a farm. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Kenyon College
Kenyon College: Family Farm Project: Native American Farming
Kenyon College provides information about the Adena and Hopewell Indians and how Native Americans farmed, followed by comprehension questions.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 383: Wooden Clocks
Read about the impact of the humble wooden clock on life for a frontier farming family in this article, which is a transcript of a radio broadcast.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: Women and Children, Circa 1920
How did the 1920s affect those working on farms? This brief article takes a look at the early optimism felt by 1920s farm families, as well as the poverty, resulting from overproduction, and also touches on how various groups benefited...
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Rene Richard: Painter of the North
Rene Richard was a native of Switzerland who worked as a trapper and hunter to avoid the hardships of farming life that his family endured. He came to appreciate Alberta's north and went to France to train as an artist. When he returned,...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Roger Sherman (1721 1793)
In 1723, when Sherman was 2 years of age, his family relocated from his Newton, MA, birthplace to Dorchester (present Stoughton). As a boy, he was spurred by a desire to learn and read widely in his spare time to supplement his minimal...
Other
Phmc: Keith C. Wolensky: Child Labor in Pennsylvania
A detailed leaflet descibing the history of child labor in Pennsylvania. Across the state it was never uncommon to find children working difficult and dangerous jobs in factories restaurants, on railways, in mines, as well as on farms....
Curated OER
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Dual-language site containing images and documents that show the role Mexican Americans have played in the history and development of Arizona.