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Home Programs: Free Lesson Plans for Home Learners
As more families elect to homeschool or use virtual learning, the Carbon County Museum will now offer mini lesson plans for you to download and complete at home. Please check back here to see the new lessons we are continually creating and uploading.
These lessons and activities are meant to supplement your ongoing at-home learning and curriculum. Please do not sell or distribute for commercial purposes.
Our goal is to offer plans for grades Pre-K – High School that will allow you to explore the history, nature, and culture of the American West, specifically Wyoming.
For younger children, we have worksheets and creative learning crafts, along with book and video recommendations.
For middle and high school students, we offer reading recommendations and activities to engage them with history, language arts, and culture.
Do Sheep Sleep?
Grade: Pre-K/Kindergarten
Duration: 30-60 minutes
Overview: Students explore the Natural History of Wyoming through its Animals and build sheep stick puppets.
Bison Tales
Grade: Pre-K/Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Duration: 30-60 minutes
Overview: Students explore the Natural History of Wyoming through its Animals and build paper bag bison puppets.
We Love Moose!
Grade: Pre-K/Kindergarten
Duration: 30-60 minutes
Overview: Students explore the Natural History of Wyoming through its Animals and build paper bag moose puppets.
Women of Carbon County
Ten – Thirteen years old, 5th – 8th Grades
Topics: US History, Women’s History, Western History, Rural History.
Learning Objective: To understand the lives and professions of rural women in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specifically those in Carbon County, Wyoming.
The Union Pacific Railroad in Carbon County, Wyoming
Ten – Thirteen years old, 5th – 8th Grades
Topics: US History, Western History, Industrialization.
Learning Objectives:
Students will read on the creation and expansion of the Union Pacific Railroad across Wyoming, focusing on Carbon County. Students will use the printable sheets analyze the photographs (primary sources) to better understand the people and places of Carbon County, Wyoming. Students will complete Active Learning Activities.