Program Description Students role play members of a family that once lived in the New River Gorge to learn past life ways. Students will discuss and role play a coal camp family of the early 1900s. Students will learn about work and play, daily chores and school, and about survival. Students will understand and appreciate both similarities and differences between family life of the past and the present. Available to schools in: Fayette, Greenbrier, Monroe, Nicholas, Raleigh & Summers counties Grade Level: 4th Program Length: 1 hour Topic: West Virginia Heritage Theme: Instructional Objectives: 1. Define cultural heritage 2. Describe elements of life in a WV Coal Camp 3. Compare and contrast New River Gorge lifeways of the past and the present Subject: History/Social Sciences WV Content Standards met: History/Social Sciences SS.4.4.3 - analyze the effect of geographic factors in the development of transportation routes and settlement patterns in the Americas (e.g., Appalachian Mountains). SS.4.5.2 - order chronologically selected historical figures and episodes, and explain their importance in the stories of Native Americans, explorers, settlers in North America. SS.4.5.5 - identify areas and patterns of early American settlement. |
Last updated: February 26, 2015