The year is 1900, America is growing fast and timber is in high demand! Join us a at a Northern Minnesota logging camp where students take on the roles of lumberjacks and explore the lives of men who cut, hauled and floated logs downstream to the sawmills. Students will examine historical artifacts to learn how humans and technology impacted the forest.
1. Introduction of presenter as Foreman or boss of logging camp, the owner of the logging camp and the students as employees of the logging camp.
2. We then discuss the history of the logging industry before and during 1900
3. Then students are introduced to Logging Camp and the buildings at logging camp
4. Students then learn about daily life a logging camp and how each of their jobs at logging camp help the whole crew work together.
5. Concluding with how logging has changed and how logging has impacted the environment.
2. We then discuss the history of the logging industry before and during 1900
3. Then students are introduced to Logging Camp and the buildings at logging camp
4. Students then learn about daily life a logging camp and how each of their jobs at logging camp help the whole crew work together.
5. Concluding with how logging has changed and how logging has impacted the environment.
This program is available by request ONLY
$120.00 for schools not in the State of Minnesota
Limited Number of FREE Classes Available for October 31st to November 4th.
Margaret Nimocks
ivc@mnhs.org
345 Kellogg Blvd. West
St. Paul, MN 55102
United States
Phone: (651) 259-3412
Fax: (651) 282-2484
ivc@mnhs.org
345 Kellogg Blvd. West
St. Paul, MN 55102
United States
Phone: (651) 259-3412
Fax: (651) 282-2484