Camp Silos
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- Learn more about American history, ecology, environmental science, farming, natural science, and technology.
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CampSilos is an educational website from Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area that focuses on the development of American agriculture. Targeting students in grades 4-8, the site provides online educational material related to the natural prairie, pioneer farm life, early agricultural technology, the story of corn from its early Indian origins to the present, and 21st century technological advances including applications of GPS and biotechnology.Using a variety of media for the student activities and teacher lesson plans, this site features such diverse activities as virtual field trips, mystery photos, group games, problem-based activities, primary source materials, scavenger hunts, and history detective research using online resources and links to national standards. Students can even watch the birth of baby pigs!The site is structured around four thematic modules: Exploring the Prairie, Pioneer Farming, The Story of Corn and Farming Today and Tomorrow.For each module, the student pages provide individual and group activities linked to the resource pages. In addition, all student pages include links at the top and bottom of each page to all other activity pages in the module.The teacher pages for each module are linked to national standards and include goals and objectives, lesson plans for each student activity page and links to teaching/learning resources.
