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Preview Now: "Early American Toys" On-Demand Video Lesson
No cars? No computers? No video games? What’s a kid growing up in earlier times to do?!?! In this workshop, students learn about resourcefulness and perseverance as they build simple toys they might have encountered during the Colonial and Pioneer eras of American history.
Grades: 1-6
Length: 60-90 minutes.
Group Size: 15-150 students.
Students need: “Early American Toys” Toymaker Kits, colored markers, scissors
More Info: Your students will experience a fun-filled, hands-on toy-building adventure that directly supports and extends American history standards around the topics of the Colonial and Pioneer eras.
Professional toy inventor and nationally recognized educator Rick “Mister Toymaker” Hartman provides the instruction with a Video-Guided (On-Demand) lesson teeming with visual surprises, entertaining demonstrations and informative content.
Students will use simple materials like wooden rulers, ice cream spoons and sissal twine to build four fascinating toys that demonstrate important concepts studied in classrooms. Topics like: timelines, communities, influence of Native Americans, reasons for migration, rustic life, and the importance of resourcefulness.
Perfect for curriculum enhancement, "In-School Field Trips," and other special occasions, this workshop promises to be a "Best Day Ever" for students, teachers, and parent volunteers alike!
Note: Our Colonial and Pioneer Toys Workshops utilize the same toy-building projects - only the instructional videos differ. When you purchase this workshop, you'll receive access to BOTH videos. Simply play the video that matches the time period you wish to emphasize in class.
Early American Toys (1-6) Class Pack Special
NSS-USH.K-4.1 LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER IN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, NOW AND LONG AGO
- Understands family life now and in the past, and family life in various places long ago
- Understands the history of the local community and how communities in North America varied long ago
NSS-USH.K-4.2 THE HISTORY OF STUDENTS' OWN STATE OR REGION
- Understands the people, events, problems, and ideas that were significant in creating the history of their state
NSS-USH.K-4.3 THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND VALUES AND THE PEOPLE FROM MANY CULTURES WHO CONTRIBUTED TO ITS CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL HERITAGE
- Understands how democratic values came to be, and how they have been exemplified by people, events, and symbols
- Understands the causes and nature of movements of large groups of people into and within the United States, now and long ago
- Understands the folklore and other cultural contributions from various regions of the United States and how they helped to form a national heritage
NSS-USH.K-4.4 THE HISTORY OF PEOPLES OF MANY CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD
- Understands selected attributes and historical developments of societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe
- Understands major discoveries in science and technology, some of their social and economic effects, and the major scientists and inventors responsible for them
NSS-USH.5-12.1 ERA 1: THREE WORLDS MEET (BEGINNINGS TO 1620)
- Understands comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450
- Understands how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples
NSS-USH.5-12.2 ERA 2: COLONIZATION AND SETTLEMENT (1585-1763)
- Understands why the Americas attracted Europeans, why they brought enslaved Africans to their colonies, and how Europeans struggled for control of North America and the Caribbean
- Understands how political, religious, and social institutions emerged in the English colonies
- Understands how the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies, and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas