Learn At Home

Learn at Home
Resources for students and families
Bringing Tacoma's birthplace to life through interactive learning
for elementary students and our community
Summer 2020 Coloring Contest
Children ages 12 and under are invited to enter our annual coloring contest.
Download the coloring contest page and send in your entry by 9/5/2020.
DOWNLOAD COLORING CONTEST ENTRY
Kids Activity Packets
Find materials in your Tacoma neighborhood

We're bringing the museum to you.
Have you found one of the Museum's activity packets in your neighborhood?
Our volunteers are busy this summer delivering activity packets to Little Free Library locations throughout the Tacoma area.

Our goal is to deliver this fun and free resource to 150 locations, reaching every neighborhood in the city!
Museum Activity Packets
What will you find in our Little Free Library packets?
Inside each folder are 9 activities designed for kids, plus a museum pencil.

The learning materials are designed for children ages 3-12.
Cabin Kids Art Challenge
Spring 2020

Congratulations to Eloise L
WINNER of the 2020 Cabin Kids Art Challenge!
Thank you to all the kiddos who sent in their fabulous artwork. We loved seeing all of your creative inspiration.
Art entries were collected 3/23/20 - 5/31/20 from children ages 12 and under.
Winner was selected through Facebook polling in a top-16 bracket.
The Museum's outreach programming is supported by TacomaCreates.
Homemade Butter
Get a taste of pioneer life with this easy recipe
Try This At Home
Draw Job Carr
Use this tutorial from local artist Benjamin Davis?
Try This at Home
Old Town Scavenger Hunt
Take a walk and explore the neighborhood where the city of Tacoma began to develop. Find out about the people and places that were important in the history of this area.
This scavenger hunt begins and ends at Job Carr Cabin Museum in Old Town Park -- 2350 N 30th St, Tacoma.
Try This At Home
Hot & Cold Game
Play an indoor pioneer game
Try This at Home
Hard Tack
Make a batch of pioneer biscuits
Try This at Home
Art Scavenger Hunt
Draw a picture of items you see in your home and neighborhood.
Try This at Home
Job's Cabin
Coloring Page
Log Cabin
Coloring Page
Job Carr
Coloring Page
Bear
Coloring Page
Cabin with Apple Tree
Coloring Page
Cabin with Mountain
Coloring Page
Cabin at Night
Coloring Page
Job and Cabin
Coloring Page
Activity Pages
Downloadable resources for school or home

Dot-to-Dot
Travel the Oregon Trail
Can you help Job Carr follow the dots along the Oregon Trail map?
Word Search
Native American Tribes
Can you find the names of the tribes Job Carr may have met on his journey west?
Maze
Tacoma to Steilacoom
Can you help Job Carr find his way?
Word Search
Railroad
Can you find the words about trains?
Word Mining
Oregon Trail
Can you use the letters to create new words?
Word Match
Pioneer Vocabulary
Can you connect the Oregon Trail word pairs?
Word Scramble
Pioneers on Puget Sound
Can you unscramble the pioneer words?
Crossword
Job Carr's Life and Times
Can you solve the clues to find out more about Job Carr?
What Was Job Carr's Life Like Before He Moved West?
Learn at Home Lesson 1 - Designed for 3^rd and 4^th grade students, this lesson plan includes reading, social studies, writing and art. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about Job Carr’s life before he traveled west along the Oregon Trail. Students conduct a close reading of a first-person historical narrative, complete a timeline of sequential events, and create an illustrated storyboard of these events.
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.
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Where Was The Oregon Trail?
Learn at Home Lesson 2 - Designed for 4^th grade students, this lesson plan includes math, reading, writing, and social studies. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about important landmarks along the Oregon Trail. Students use a grid map to plot a route across the western United States, complete a close reading activity about Oregon Trail landmarks, and write an opinion paragraph about which landmark was most important to the pioneers.
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.
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What Did Job Carr See And Do When He Arrived In Puget Sound?
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.
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What Would It Be Like For Job Carr To Travel Through Puget Sound? Part A
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.
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What Would It Be Like For Job Carr To Travel Through Puget Sound? Part B
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.
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