Field Trips

French and Indian War Activity

Grade Level:
Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Subject:
Social Studies
State Standards:
Louisiana State Social Studies Standards: 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, 3.8, 3.19, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.4, 5.7, 5.13, 5.14

This 30 minute interactive program allows students to play a lifesize game that enables them to develop a deeper understanding of how America's significant events in history. Students will learn how the forced and voluntary migrations of indigenous, enslaved peoples, and European people created the diaspora and eventual settlement of some Acadians here in Louisiana, that would ultimately form the rich cultural gumbo of our area.

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Last updated: July 27, 2024