Mules Lesson Plans - LessonCorner

1. Curr Project
...er of locks along the I & M Canal.? Write the number: ____________ 3. Draw a canal boat with its captain. 4. It took canal boats about 26 hours to go through the whole I & M Canal. ????? Is that more or less than a day?? Circle:??? more??????? less 5. Canal boys got paid $.50 a day to work with the mules who pulled the boats along the ????? canal.? What could you buy with that much money today?? ______________________________? 6. Look at the path of the I & M Canal on the map. ????? Is the canal?? straight?? or??? crooked? ?? (Circle) 7. Use a blue marker to trace the rivers and creeks on the map. 8...

2. Nevada Trilogy
...n, weather, feed and water for the animals. 4. Draw and label a map showing the route that they intend to take from St. Louis to their arrival in the Sacramento Valley. Materials: Pen, pencil, colored pencils, drawing paper, a good imagination. The wagon dimension 4'x 10', load limit 15,000 pounds. Mules, sure footed most expensive (Cadillac); Horses, pull wagon faster (Ford or Chevy); Oxen, slowest, walk along beside wagon (economy; what most people could afford). Early wagons had no breaks _ Privacy Policy About Link Policy Disclaimer Topics A-Z Site Search Site Map

3. Mountain Men .Html
...ed. 3. Most mountain men had an average of four kids which often traveled with them. 4. 64% of the mountain men that were married had married Native American women. 5. Most mountain men hunted for fifteen years, then became ranchers or farmers. 6. The men didn't travel alone on foot, but by horses, mules, and canoes. 7. Most mountain men died of old age at the age of sixty-four. They lived longer then most Americans at the time. 8. Mountain men did not hunt and trap only for enjoyment, but mostly for the money. For more information on mountain men please see: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html...

4. Teacher Material: Lesson 3
...time to introduce the biological definition of a species. Since a melanogaster/simulans cross may produce hybrids, students may think they are the same species. However, the offspring are sterile (not viable), therefore, not the same species. It is the same with a cross between a horse and donkey. Mules are produced, however they are sterile. Therefore, a horse and donkey are not of the same species. Part 3: Crossing collected flies with known phenotype flies. Once the species has been determined to be D. melanogaster, you can proceed with mating between caught flies and mutant and caught flies and...

5. Zora Neale Hurston on the Turpentine Camps
...Hurston Home _ Overview _ _ History Zora Neale Hurston came to work for the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in Florida in May of 1938. She signed on for the position of "Junior Interviewer" with the Federal Writer's Project (FWP). At the time Hurston had already published Jonah's Gourd Vine and Mules and Men and was the only widely published author on the Florida payroll. In 1939, Hurston went to Cross City, FL to interview workers of the Aycock _ _ and Lindsay turpentine camp. Material from her essay "Turpentine" later Documents appeared in her book Seraph on the Suwanee. Turpentine camps were...

6. Farming and the services of a Community (Lesson 5)
...can soak into it. This helps keep the land from washing away. If the rows were not in the land it would wash away and the farmers would have no place to grow his/her crop. Many years ago farmers did not have machines to help them save the soil from washing away. They did everything with horses and mules. It tool a lot of work back then to do what is fairly simple today. Would anyone in here do that kind of work, just to save a crop? STUDENT RESPONSE: TEACHER: Does anyone remember what a service is? STUDENT RESPONSE: TEACHER: Lets name some types of services the community offers to us. (Schools, hos...

7. Getting There
...w Of Main Ideas The first travelers to Alaska were hunters and fishermen traveling over the snow with sleds drawn by dogs. They made boats from animal skins. Whalers and trappers came by ship. Prospectors tried to get to the gold fields of the Yukon on steep trails like the Chilkoat on foot or with mules. Building a railroad along this same route proved a challenging and dangerous feat. A railroad was built to connect the main cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks but many lived in remote bush towns or islands. Pilots who are skilled at landing on dirt runways or on frozen lakes bring food, medicine, ma...

8. Title:
...e depression? 16. When was the canal completed and filled with the waters of Lake Michigan? 17. How many workers died building the I&M Canal? 18. Canal boats could hold up to how many tons of cargo? 19. What happened in 1853 that was a great blow to the canal industry in Illinois? 20. What replaced mules to power canal boats in the late 1800s?

9. The Last Great American Canal
...a basket.? This will name their character and job description: o Captain ? holds rope (other end held by canal boy) must pay toll to lock-tender and canal boy; is able to make purchases from town vendors. o Canal boy ? holds rope (other end held by Captain-explain that because we will not be using mules/horses, the Canal boy will simply lead the boat) will receive payment from Captain and is able to make purchase from town vendors. o Passengers (Provide names for as many passengers as you need ? one passenger will pick up and pay for mending done by the town's seamstress/tailor at the lock ? design...

10. Zora Neale Hurston on the Turpentine Camps
...ociety. _ _ Documents _ Overview Zora Neale Hurston came to work for the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in Florida in May of 1938. She signed on for the position of "Junior Interviewer" with the Federal Writer's Project (FWP). At the time Hurston _ _ had already published Jonah's Gourd Vine and Mules and Men and was the only Photos widely published author on the Florida payroll. Hurston never mentioned her work with the FWP in her autobiography, perhaps because of the stigma associated with the WPA's "relief" programs. During this time, she worked out of her home in Eatonville and finished her f...