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Handout
Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Dry Farming in Utah

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about dry farming in general as well as specific information about dry farming in Utah.
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Handout
Tour Egypt

Tour Egypt Monthly: Ancient Egyptian Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
This Tour Egypt Monthly informative article overviews important aspects of Ancient Egyptian Agriculture, including the Nile flooding, farming tools, grain and vegetable cultivation, and animal domestication. Included are small images of...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Real Dirt on Farmer John: Family Farms in America

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Crop Rotation

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of crop rotation in the United States. Once an incentive from the New Deal, farmers were paid to plant certain crops or let the soil lie fallow.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Colonial Life 2: Poor Richard's Almanack

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, Poor Richard's...
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Website
Wessels Living History Farm

Wessels Living History Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...
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Website
Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience what farming was like in Nebraska in the 1920s. Many farms lacked electricity, indoor plumbing, refrigerators, and other conveniences enjoyed by city dwellers. Stories, pictures, and videos make the history of rural 1920s...
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Website
Other

Camp Silos: Introduction to Farming Today and Tomorrow

For Students 3rd - 5th
Student-friendly site explaining the history of farming. The section on farming today and tomorrow gives viewers the opportunity to see pigs being born. Requires QuickTime plug-in.
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Interactive
Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
The Glenbow Museum presents the stories of almost 40 different mavericks who shaped the history of Alberta. The website breaks down the province's history into the following nine areas: Uninvited Guests, Mounties, Railway, Ranching,...
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Website
Teacher Oz

Teacher Oz: History of the Lone Star State Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge collection of links to resources about the history of Texas. As this is an older web page, some of the links no longer work. Topics covered include primary resources, timelines, history sites, flags, maps, landmarks, monuments,...
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Unit Plan
Other

The Weekly South Dakotan: South Dakota History for 4th Grade

For Students 3rd - 8th
From the very beginning and through the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection of lessons will enrich students studying the history in between and the effects on South Dakota.
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eBook
Other

United States History: Ch. 3 Sec. 1: The Southern Colonies [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter from a history text that looks at the development of the Southern Colonies. It discusses the Southern agricultural economy that relied on slave labor, tobacco as a cash crop, Southern society, indentured servitude, Bacon's...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama Dept of Archives of History: Alabama Farm Life in Great Depression [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This activity aids students in understanding the devastating impact that the Great Depression had on average Americans, with a focus on farmer in Alabama. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Graphic
Other

Conner Prairie Interactive History Park: Agriculture Implements

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos and brief descriptions of farm tools used in farming the plains in the 19th century.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Failure of West Indian Company Farming

For Students 9th - 10th
Chronicles the begining of company farming in the United States and what led to its faliure. Click on "next" at the bottom of each page to get more of this essay. In-depth information.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: After the Civil War: The New South

For Students 9th - 10th
After the Civil War, there was some impetus to modernize the South's economy to make it more industrialized and less agrarian. It never gained traction while sharecropping and tenant farming did, ensuring the persistence of rural...
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Handout
University of Manitoba

History of Cooperatives

For Students 9th - 10th
This page gives a brief history of cooperatives, and describes several types of agricultural co-ops, such as marketing, supply and surplus.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Nullification Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Toward the end of his first term in office, Jackson was forced to confront the state of South Carolina, the most important of the emerging Deep South cotton states, on the issue of the protective tariff. Business and farming interests in...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: America Moves to the City

For Students 9th - 10th
The industrial boom of the late nineteenth century led Americans and immigrants from the world over to leave farming life and head to the city.
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Website
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Agriculture: Ranching in a Changing Land

For Students 4th - 8th
Looks at the history of agriculture in Texas, from the cattle drives of the past to the mechanization of food production today. One section discusses the major crops that are produced today, and the production and economic figures for each.
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Handout
Other

Texas Beyond History: Early Ranching on the Northern Frontier of New Spain

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of early ranching during the westward expansion and the cattle boom from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
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Handout
TexasHistory.com

Texas history.com: Working Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the history of the major industries of Texas, including cotton farming, the lumber industry, cattle ranching, and the oil industry.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Early Industrialization

For Students 9th - 10th
Advances in technology affected manufacturing in the North and farming in the South. Read about how America turned from a country where most products were made in the home to an economic power that used factory production.
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Website
Other

Kansas Barbed Wire Museum: Brief History of Barbed Wire

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the history of barbed wire and why it was such an advancement for farms on the prairie.

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