• Homestead Heritage Center & Prairie

    Homestead

    National Monument of America Nebraska

Sixth to Eighth Grade Curriculum

The Homestead Act and President Lincoln
These lessons are designed to teach children about the Homestead Act and President Abraham Lincoln's role in its creation.

Frontier Education
These lessons are designed to teach children about frontier education in one-room school houses.

Homesteaders, Immigrants, and American Indians
These lessons are designed to teach children about the daily life of a homesteader.

Prairie Animals
These lessons are designed to teach children about the animals encountered on the prairie.

Prairie Fire
These lessons are designed to teach children about the impacts of fire on the prairie.

Prairie Insects
These lessons are designed to teach children about various insects homesteaders would have encountered on the prairie.

Prairie Plants
These lessons are designed to teach children about the plants and the impact homesteaders had on them.

Water Quality
These lessons are designed to teach children about conservation and the impacts pollution has on our water supply.

Did You Know?

Freeman School

The Freeman School, which operated from 1872 to 1967, was wired for electricity in 1940. The first electric bill was $0.75.
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