Get Outside!

Logging Camp Life

Class Description:

Take a trip back in time to 1901 and visit the cook in a Minnesota logging camp. While full of complaints, the cook is also full of stories and information about Minnesota logging history. Laugh as an audience member gets dressed up as an old logger. Watch a newly recruited team of sawyers tackle the cross-cut saw. You'll learn as you participate in this active program. Songs and stories help set the mood.

Outcomes

Upon completion of the Logging Camp Life evening program students will be able to:

  • Describe the workings of a 1901 logging camp, including workers' areas of specialty and interdependence.
  • Compare and contrast life 100 years ago with the present.
  • Describe the history of logging in Minnesota.
  • Explain some of the impacts of clear cut logging on ecological systems.

Minnesota Graduation Standards

Wolf Ridge has aligned the Center's entire curriculum to Minnesota Department of Education Academic Standards. As the primary student audience at Wolf Ridge is from 4th-12th grade, the matrices address these grade levels. Teachers may request that their students focus upon a specific benchmark while attending Wolf Ridge. The Wolf Ridge Curriculum Standards Matrix addresses benchmarks in

  • Science
  • Math
  • History and Social Science
  • Language Arts
  • Arts

Wolf Ridge Curriculum Concepts

  • Humans have a great ability to alter natural systems, and a responsibility to consider the effects of our actions.
  • The natural environment has many obvious and subtle impacts upon human history and culture.
  • Different cultures hold varying beliefs on environmental issues.
  • See entire Wolf Ridge Curriculum Framework

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Time
50 minutes
indoors

Audience
4th grade - adult

Activity level
easy

Travel
none

Total uphill travel
none