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Education Booklet
Overcoming Environmental Determinism: Taming the Frontier with Technology
Price : $10/2 weeks
Target audience: Grades 4-8 Geography and History students
Time: 2-3 weeks (45 minute periods).
This trunk focuses on early settler interaction with the local environment and the hardships they faced. It highlights the 19th century technology used to overcome many hardships, government acts, and the industries that enticed settlers to move onto the Great Plains.