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Grade 2
Life Cycle of the Butterflies
The Big Meadow Butterfly
Hunt, Butterfly Gazebo Garden, Butterfly Games & Sensory Activities, and
Local Butterfly Presentation in the Manor House.
Essential Questions
What are the stages of the life cycle of an insect?
What are the functions of the insect body parts?
How do you say "butterfly" in your
language?
Grade 3
The Green Plant Mystery
The Green Plant Mystery is a third grade learning module that has been
designed to
enhance experiential learning for investigative third grade
detectives hunting
for "seeds and weeds" in the meadow and "seeds
and needs" at the Log Cabin as well as "shoots and roots" in
the Bamboo Maze. The outdoor classroom field trip program on 100 acres of parkland has some of the oldest trees in Maryland
on a Tree Savenger Hunt and there are suggested post-activities for the school classroom.
Enduring Understandings: Plants need air, water, nutrients, and light to
survive. Organism survive
in environments in which their needs are met.
Organisms have special parts that allow them to perform certain functions
Grade 3
Historical Maryland
Woodlawn
Manor Quaker Plantation Life c.1774
Stone Dairy & Smokehouse
Slave Log Cabin
/ Tobacco "Hogshead"
Spinning & Carding Demonstration
Hands-On
History Activities & Tour
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Grade 4
Colonial Maryland Plantation Life
Hands-On
Colonial Daily Farm Life Activities:
Churning Butter @ the Dairy
Crushing The "Gold
of the South" (corn)
Spin & Card "King Cotton"
Pump & Carry
Well Water by Yoke & Buckets
Visit the Smokehouse
See a "Hand
of Cured Tobacco" Colonial cash crop
Barter & Trade at the General Store
Old
Time Plantation Games
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2008
Grade 4
Early Woodland Native American Lifeways & Legends
Authentic Smudging Ceremony
@ the Four Winds Village
Hands-On
Yacomaco Daily Life & Artifacts
Bows & Arrows / Animal Signs
The
Dancing Rock Song w/ Ms. Yellowhair
Environmental History, A
River Ran..."
Crushing "Weachimin" into "Nokehig"
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2008
Grade 4
The Underground Railroad Experience in Maryland
( The Network to Freedom Award
in 2001)
Author, Donna Will
Follow the Drinking Gourd Program
Living History Activities Slave Log
Cabin / UGRR Trail Escape
My Bedstead
was a Board...
Call & Response "Juba"
w/ African Percussion
The Freedom Puzzle
Sweet Clara & the Freedom Quilt
Wool Gathering
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2008
Grade 4
The Carriage House One-Room School
Experience the 1800's School Day
McGuffey's Readers / Spelling Bee
The Alphabet Doll
Old Time School Yard Games
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Grade 5
The Winds of Revolution c. 1774
Colonial Conflict / Visit a Revolutionary Manor House
Hands-On History & Interactive Play
Quaker Spinning & Carding Demonstration
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Grade 5
The National Pike
/ Racing West
Experience the Journey / Pioneer
Log Cabin Life Activities
Barney Bilkum's
General Store / Barter & Trade
Quaker
Stone Barn c 1832
Meet Calamity &
the Trail Boss
Pioneer Farm Games
Chuckwagon Grill
Westward Ho Wagon Train Trail Experience!
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Grade 8
Wagons West!
Frontier Life / Experience the Journey / Wilderness Trail
Pioneer Log Cabin Activities / Barter & Trade
Chuckwagon Grill
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Grade 8
The Underground Railroad Experience in Maryland
The North Star Challenge Course / Trail Escape
Tobacco Plantation Activities
Ursa Minor / Polaris Board Game
Slave
"testimony" & Soul Food...Hoppin' John
The Sleeping Boards & Freedom Puzzle
The Old Hundred Pegs
Sweet
Honey / Freedom Train
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