Learn At Home

Learn at Home
Resources for students and families
Special thanks to Tacoma Creates for supporting our Learn at Home resources
Bringing Tacoma's birthplace to life through interactive learning
for elementary students and our community
Kids Activities
Arts and crafts materials for Tacoma-area kids

We're hosting socially-distanced Craft Saturdays.
Museum craft kits for at-home activities
We are offering take-home craft activities. Pick up your craft kit each month from the museum's front porch using social distancing etiquette, 11am - 1pm, on designated Saturdays.

December 11 - Winter Ornament

Our 2022 Craft Saturday events will be announced soon!

More details on our Facebook page.
Instructional videos available on our YouTube channel.

Previous 2021 Craft Activities:
January, Winter Snowflakes
February, Year of the Ox
March, Brain Teasers
April, Postcards
May, Cabin Kids Art Challenge
June, Butterfly Suncatcher
July, Soap Carving
August, Corn Husk Action Figures
September, Braided Friendship Bracelets
October, Mini Log Cabins
November, Shadow Puppets
We're bringing the museum to you.
Museum activity packets in Tacoma neighborhoods
Our volunteers regularly deliver activity packets to over 100 Little Free Library locations throughout the Tacoma area.
Inside each folder are 6 activities designed for kids and a book. The learning materials are designed for children ages 3-12.

Take an inside look at an at the Museum's Little Free Library activity packets with this 1-minute video.

Keep an eye out for our signature green folders at Tacoma Little Free Libraries throughout the year. Also look for our community booth on select summer dates Tacoma Farmers Market.
Cabin Kids Art Challenge
May 2021, supported by TacomaCreates

2021 Cabin Kids Art Challenge
Congratulations to Evan and Harmony for their winning drawings!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Cabin Kids Art Challenge in May.
Visitors to the Museum in June 2021 voted for their favorite entries.
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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How Has Tacoma Grown?
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.
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A Day In The Life of a Pioneer Child
Find out more about daily life for Tacoma children in the 1870s in this 4-part series.
Morning Routines
Starting the Day
What style of clothing did pioneer children wear?
What types of chores did kids do?
What did they eat for breakfast?
School Days
Tacoma's First Schools
What did pioneer children learn at school?
What did kids eat for lunch?
What did they play at recess?
Entertainment
Fun & Games
What types of toys and games pioneer kids play?
What did children do on rainy days?
What kind of music did they listen to?
Evening Routines
Hygiene & Bedtime
What did pioneer children eat for supper?
How did kids clean up at the end of the day?
How did they sleep?
Crossword Puzzle
Review
Test your knowledge with a crossword puzzle
All answers can be found in the 4-part Day In The Life series
Homemade Butter
Get a taste of pioneer life with this easy recipe
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Draw Job Carr
Use this tutorial from local artist Benjamin Davis?
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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.
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Hot & Cold Game
Play an indoor pioneer game
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Hard Tack
Make a batch of pioneer biscuits
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Art Scavenger Hunt
Draw a picture of items you see in your home and neighborhood.
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Winter Activity Bingo
Ideas for keeping kids active on chilly days in the Pacific Northwest
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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?
Nature Riddles
Brain Teasers
Can you solve these word puzzles?
Board Game
The Great Mail Race
Can you be the first to deliver the letter?
Job's 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
Oregon Trail
Coloring Page
Fishing
Coloring Page