Grade 1, 2 and 3

Early Settler Farming - Early Barns Grades 2-4

EBJ18913

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In this lesson students will answer these questions:

a) Describe a settler's first barn?

b) How did an early settler get ready to build his barn?

c) What was a "barn-raising bee"?

d) Do you think people in communities today help each other in the same way?

e) Why are settlers so willing to help each other?

f) Discuss the steps taken to build the framework of a barn?

g) Why were the beams so heavy and thick?

h) What work did the settlers still have to do on the barn by themselves?

i) Who still uses this barn raising skill today in Ontario?

Teaching instructions, reading information page, and 1 worksheet with answer key.

This book supports many of the fundamental concepts and learning outcomes from the Ontario Curriculum.

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