Learn at Home

Learn at Home Lesson 3 - Designed for 4^th grade students, this lesson plan includes reading, social studies and art. It encourages students to think critically about what the Puget Sound area looked like when settlers first began to arrive. It provides students with an opportunity to compare and contrast primary and secondary historical sources.

This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

Learn at Home Lesson 4, Part A - Designed for 4^th grade students, this lesson plan includes social studies, P.E., math, and writing. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about daily life and transportation in Washington territory for the era prior to statehood.

• In Part A, students increase their knowledge of local geography, maps, and trip planning to understand how tribal members and early settlers traveled around Puget Sound.

This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

Learn at Home Lesson 4, Part B - Designed for 4^th grade students, this lesson plan includes social studies, P.E., math, and writing. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about daily life and transportation in Washington territory for the era prior to statehood.

• In Part B, students write a narrative story about an imagined journey during the 1860s, before the arrival of the transcontinental railroad.

This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

Learn at Home Lesson 5 - Designed for 4^th grade students, this lesson plan includes social studies, reading, and math. Students examine historical photographs to learn more about the development of the city of Tacoma, including the importance of the transcontinental railroad. They compare and contrast the past with the present by analyzing a historical advertisement. Students also use census data from 1870 to 2010 to graph the population growth of Tacoma.

This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.