Guest Speakers

Working the Portage

Grade Level:
Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
State Standards:
NATIONAL/STATE STANDARDS:
National Standard 2
National Standard 4
Pennsylvania Standard 7.3
Pennsylvania Standard 7.3.6
Pennsylvania Standard 9.1
Pennsylvania Standard 3.6

Overview

The students will be visited by a ranger or volunteer in period costume of an artisan. The artisan or artisan will do a demonstration of their particular trade (blacksmith, stone cutter, log hewer, rope maker, spinner/weaver, or soldier).

Materials

Materials include all of the tools and paraphernalia required to perform each task.

Procedure

The students will be handed a worksheet with various pictures of tools and equipment. They will be required to match the tools with the artisan. The artisans represented will be: blacksmith, stone-cutter, log-hewer, rope-maker, spinner/weaver, and soldier, the students will be asked to put the correct tools with the correct worker.

Tags: immigration labor history

Last updated: October 24, 2018