2nd
GRADE
“Experiencing History
While You Teach”
Educational
Programming
Our Mission
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Founded in 1983, the Tobacco Farm Life Museum
is a nonprofit educational organization whose
mission is to “Preserve the History and Cultural
Heritage of the Eastern North Carolina farm
family and present this legacy to the Public.”
The museum fulfills this mission through historical preservation, museum exhibits, educational
outreach, and enrichment programs for all ages.
Our educational tours are hands-on, interactive,
and fun, with presentations designed for the
developmental level of the child.
The purpose of this brochure is to highlight some
of the ways that the museum’s guided tours meet
the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Competency Goals in this flyer are written as
seen in the NC Standard Course of Study provided
by the Department of Public Instruction Organization for North Carolina and the State Board of
Education for 2009.
Tour Highlights include topics that the museum
guides touch on during the tour provided, but
are not all inclusive of the educational programming that the museum provides. If you have
questions or would like to see if we can modify
the program to fit your teaching needs please
contact us.
Social Studies
COMPETENCY GOALS
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Describe the interdependence
among individuals, families, and
the community.
Compare similarities and
differences between oneself
and others.
Identify the sources and use of revenue
in the community.
Analyze the changing uses of a community’s
economic resources and predict future
changes.
Identify uses of technology in communities.
Explain how technology has affected the
world in which we live.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
• Compare similarities and differences among
cultures in various communities.
• Identify multiple roles performed by
individuals in their families and communities.
• Analyze the effects of change in communities
and predict future changes.
• Analyze environmental issues, past and
present, and determine their impact on
different cultures.
• Describe human movement in the
establishment of settlement patterns such
as rural, urban, and suburban.
• Identify and describe the people, vegetation,
and animal life specific to certain regions and
describe their interdependence.
• Identify natural resources and cite ways
people conserve and replenish natural
resources.
• Cite ways people modify the physical
environment to meet their needs and explain
their consequences.
• Distinguish between producers and
consumers and identify ways people are
both producers and consumers.
• Distinguish between goods produced
and services provided in communities.
• Describe different types of employ ment and the way people earn
an income.
1. Discuss the many different jobs on the
farmstead and the specialized skills from
other individuals and families in the
community. Such as the farmer, store clerk,
blacksmith, woodworker, etc. and how
they worked together to complete tasks or
provide necessary equipment.
2. Discuss differences in how individuals lived
in the early 1900’s from how we live today.
3. Discuss differences in rural and urban
lifestyles.
4. Discuss chores on the farmstead and how
they were delegated.
5. Discuss technology developments that
made farming easier and allowed the
farmers to produce larger crops. Discuss
technology advancements and how they
will affect the future of farming and the
farming community.
6. Discuss the environmental issues that farmers
and rural communities face such as
overpopulation, loss of farmlands,
development of pesticides and their
significance, changes in weather patterns, etc.
7. Discuss changes in settlement patterns
and how transportation has affected the
farming community.
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8. Identify animals and plant life that grow
in eastern North Carolina, and how some
foreign plants and animals that were
thought to have been a tool for farmers are
not, kudzu for example.
9. Identify how the farmer conserves,
replenishes, recycles and reuses natural
resources such as fertilizers, etc.
10. Describe how the farmer modifies his
farmland to get the most use out of it,
including tilling the land, building work
houses and shelter and rotating fields.
11. Discuss how individuals are both producers
and consumers and how the farmer
produced his own crops for consumption.
12. Have the learners identify some of the
goods and services provided by the
farming community and their significance.
13. Discuss many of the jobs in the farming
community and how they earned income.
14. Discuss changes in economic resources
and how they will affect the future of the
farming community. For example the loss
of farmlands.
15. Compare and contrast the
technological equipment in
the 1900’s and today and how
it has changed farming,
for example to use of
electronic curing barns
that are monitored
online. Phone lines that
were multi-party lines
as opposed to the cell
phone and text messages.
Math
COMPETENCY GOALS
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Develop number sense for whole numbers
through 999
-Connect model, number word, and number
using a variety of representations
-Read and write numbers
-Compare and order
-Estimate
-Use of variety of models to build
understanding of place value (ones, tens,
hundreds)…
Use area or region models and set models of
fractions to explore part-whole relationships
in contexts.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
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Discuss number values and the change in
values over time. Discuss differences in $.25
per lbs in 1920 versus $1.77 per lbs in 2006.
Discuss how technology has affected profits
and what percentage of the income is
invested in equipment.
Discuss how the farmers traditionally
separated his fields to provide a fraction of
the land for growing tobacco and a fraction
of the land for growing other crops such as
cotton, corn etc. and how the income from
the crop was a part of the whole income
earned by the farmer.
Science
COMPETENCY GOALS
• Identify the use of common tools to measure
weather.
• Observe changes in state due to heating and
cooling of common materials.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
1. Discuss the significance of weather to the
farmer and the tools that he uses to measure
wind, rainfall and temperature.
2. Discuss the changes in metal when heated
and how these changes help to produce tools
for the farmer.
Language Arts
COMPETENCY GOALS
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Apply knowledge of all sources of information
(meaning, language, graphophonics) to read
a new text silently and independently.
Pose possible how, why, and what if questions
to understand and/or interpret text.
Recall main idea, facts and details from
a text.
Discuss similarities and differences in events,
characters and concepts within and across
texts.
Use personal experiences and knowledge to
interpret written and oral messages.
Explain and describe new concepts and
information in own words.
Use oral communication to identify, organize,
and analyze information.
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Encourage learners to identify and silently
read texts in exhibit cases that identify
subjects, objects and general information.
Have the learners discuss what they read
and what is orally presented and pose how,
why and what if questions to compare and
contrast differences in lifestyles since 1900.
Discuss and paraphrase main ideas, facts
and details learned during the tour.
Have the learners identify similarities and
differences in their personal experiences
with chores, transportation, and education.
Discuss concepts that may be new to the
students regarding farming, the farming
community and southern culture.
Allow the students to use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze
information .
Present students with new vocabulary.
The Basic Tour
The basic Tobacco Farm Life museum tour
includes an introductory video and admission
to the museum and grounds, which includes
a Traditional Pack House, 1920’s farmhouse, a
separate kitchen dwelling, a 100-year-old
tobacco barn, a one-room schoolhouse, and a
working blacksmith shop.
Each tour can be customized by adding any of
the following hands on activities.
Butter Churning Candle Dipping
Heritage Games Blacksmithing Tour
Artifact Discovery
On-Farm Tours
The Tobacco Farm Life Museum also offers a variety
of seasonal, off-site farm tours. Including but not limited to farms that grow Tobacco, Cotton and Sweet
Potato. Adding this tour to your school’s tour offers
the students the opportunity to see the differences
between traditional hand tools and farming techniques and modern technology and processing.
Please contact the museum for tour rates and details.
Group Reservations Required
To make your field trip the most enjoyable, we
ask that you make advance reservations. Our staff
can schedule your trip several months in advance;
advance scheduling assures you priority attention.
2nd Grade Educational Programming
709 Church Street
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US Hwy 301 North
|
Kenly, North Carolina