Old Sturbridge Village
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School (6th grade)
Link to Website: https://www.osv.org/teacher-resources
Link to Website: https://www.osv.org/teacher-resources
Link to Lesson Plan on New England Family Life: http://resources.osv.org/school/lesson_plans/ShowLessons.php?LessonID=34
Standard Reflected:
Standard Reflected:
HIST 4.1 Explain connections among historical contexts and people’s perspectives at the time.
HIST 5.2 Compare life in specific historical periods to life today.
HIST 5.4 Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives.
GEO 5.3 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
HIST 5.2 Compare life in specific historical periods to life today.
HIST 5.4 Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives.
GEO 5.3 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
The Mark Twain House
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Early Middle School (6th
grade)
Link to Website: https://www.marktwainhouse.org/programs/field_trips.php
Link to Website: https://www.marktwainhouse.org/programs/field_trips.php
Link to Lesson Plan:
https://www.marktwainhouse.org/programs/downloads/courses/23.%20Huck%20Finn%20and%20the%20Consequences%20of%20Moral%20Choices.pdf
The Mashantucket Pequot
Grade
Level: Upper Elementary, Early Middle
School
Link to Website: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/default.aspx
Link to Website: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/default.aspx
Link to
Online Lesson Plan Suggestion:
1.http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/educational/Documents/The%20Joy%20of%20Music.pdf
2. http://www.mohegan.nsn.us/education/lesson-plans
Standards Reflected:
GEO 4.3 Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environment.
Standards Reflected:
GEO 4.3 Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environment.
GEO 4.7 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
HIST 5.2 Compare life in specific historical periods to life today.
HIST 5.4 Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives.
GEO 5.3 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
GEO 6–7.4 Analyze the cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from one another.
GEO 6–7.7 Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract settlement and movement.
HIST 5.2 Compare life in specific historical periods to life today.
HIST 5.4 Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives.
GEO 5.3 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
GEO 6–7.4 Analyze the cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from one another.
GEO 6–7.7 Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract settlement and movement.
Essex Steam Train and Riverboat Tour
Grade
Level: Elementary
Link to
Website: http://essexsteamtrain.com
Link to
Lesson Plan: http://essexsteamtrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elementary_curriculum.pdf
Link to Teacher Guide: http://essexsteamtrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/teachers_guide.pdf
Standard Reflected:
ECO 4.3 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.
Standard Reflected:
ECO 4.3 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.
GEO 4.6 Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people,
goods, and ideas.
HIST 5.2 Compare life in specific historical periods to life today.
HIST 5.5 Explain connections among historical contexts and people’s perspectives at the time.
ECO 5.2 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.
HIST 5.5 Explain connections among historical contexts and people’s perspectives at the time.
ECO 5.2 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.
GEO 6–7.6 Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence human settlements
and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
Windham Textile and History Museum
Grade
Level: Upper Elementary, Early Middle
School
Link to Website: http://www.millmuseum.org
Link to
Classroom Activities: (focus) Life of a
Mill Worker’s Family – 1893
2. http://www.millmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/GlossaryforMillWorkerFamilyPowerpoint.pdf
SStandard Reflected:
GEO 4.5 Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.
GEO 4.6 Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.
SStandard Reflected:
GEO 4.5 Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.
GEO 4.6 Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.
GEO 4.7 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
GEO 6–7.3 Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people.
GEO 6–7.3 Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people.
