Learning Activities
These activities are designed to help students better understand the Fort and give them an opportunity to use hands-on activities to learn more about Fort Scott National Historic site and its habitants.
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Design a Fort

- Uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant developments in the history of Kansas and produce a visual representation of a product.

Design a Dragoon

- Replicate and design a Dragoon soldier at Fort Scott in 1840.


Bread Baking

- Using the bread recipe from the 1840s, adapt the recipe to fit classroom/faculty size.


Shop til you drop

- Comparison Shopping. Students will add up supplies from the 1840s and compare that cost to the cost of those supplies today.

Exploring the Tall Grass Prairie

- As a result of this activity all students will compare, describe, and sort as they begin to form explanations of the world.

Doctor on Call

- The student describes life at a frontier military fort in Kansas.


Researching the Tall Grass Prairie

- As a result of this activity all students will use a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth's surface and relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that occur in our interconnected world.