Grades One and Two

Your students may think that they are on a fun field trip – but we put them to work too! Students will visit a farmer’s home from the 1830s, our Mercantile Store and a reproduction of Mrs. Kemper’s kitchen garden, from around 1805, in order to help them identify and relate to the basic human needs of shelter, clothing and food/water. As the students work, they will discover a bit about goods and services as well. They will “harvest” food from our apple orchard and garden, fetch water, discover other goods that their 1800s family might need, or just want, at the mercantile store and learn just how hard it was to get a new shirt or even corn bread!

The groups will compare the needs of those in 19th century southwest Ohio and our needs of today, as well as how we all satisfy those needs.

A Lesson in Needs & Wants is available to students in Grades One & Two, Monday through Friday by appointment only.