American West L8 – Early Farming on the Plains

This lesson contains:

• A background to early farming and the effect of the Indian Appropriations Act on settling Indians further West.

• An on-board summary of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the parcelling up of land to be newly settled. The students can stick the map in an annotate around it.

• A brief introduction to these new farmers as Homesteaders. More comes in later lessons on them though.

• A guided reading/research task on the difficulties the farmers faced. Students use the information to complete the table for problems of farming the Plains and problems of living on the Plains.

• A plenary to assess whether life was harder for miners (previous lesson) or farmers.

Attachments:

• 1 x Powerpoint Presentation

• 3 x PowerpointFiles