Field Trips
1888 Time Capsule ProgramThe 1888 Time Capsule program combines an authentic one-room schoolhouse experience with the added benefit of Minnesota Education Standards-based lessons designed to engage your students and reinforce educational standards, while telling the story of Minnesota history.
Students will complete four lessons while spending time in the Historic Cahill School and Historic 1879 Minnehaha Grange Hall. |
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Field Trip DetailsAddress
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Lesson Descriptions
School, Then and Now
Students will compare and contrast a typical 1888 school day with their own contemporary experience. They will use desks, slates, books and other artifacts that are appropriate for the period while participating in brief lessons from the 19th century. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
It’s Chore Time
Students will perform a variety of chores from the 19th century, including stacking wood, carrying water and washing laundry. Students will also explore a number of historic artifacts as they discover ways in which modern utilities such as electricity, central heating, air conditioning and running water have changed the world they live in. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
What’s Going on Here?
Using historic images from the Edina Historical Society collections, students will employ Visual Learning Strategies (What’s going on here? How can you tell? Tell me more.) to learn the stories of local Minnesotans, Sarah Baird and the Yancey family. Students will also gain an understanding of important historic events such as the Children’s Blizzard of 1888. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
Grange Drill
Junior Grange was organized in 1888 and remains an important youth organization in Minnesota today. Students will learn the history of the Historic 1879 Minnehaha Grange Hall and explore ways in which the organization benefited children of the 19th century while they learn the elements of traditional Junior Grange drills (choreographed marches). They will then work in small teams to create their own drills, set to 19th century music. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
Students will compare and contrast a typical 1888 school day with their own contemporary experience. They will use desks, slates, books and other artifacts that are appropriate for the period while participating in brief lessons from the 19th century. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
It’s Chore Time
Students will perform a variety of chores from the 19th century, including stacking wood, carrying water and washing laundry. Students will also explore a number of historic artifacts as they discover ways in which modern utilities such as electricity, central heating, air conditioning and running water have changed the world they live in. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
What’s Going on Here?
Using historic images from the Edina Historical Society collections, students will employ Visual Learning Strategies (What’s going on here? How can you tell? Tell me more.) to learn the stories of local Minnesotans, Sarah Baird and the Yancey family. Students will also gain an understanding of important historic events such as the Children’s Blizzard of 1888. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
Grange Drill
Junior Grange was organized in 1888 and remains an important youth organization in Minnesota today. Students will learn the history of the Historic 1879 Minnehaha Grange Hall and explore ways in which the organization benefited children of the 19th century while they learn the elements of traditional Junior Grange drills (choreographed marches). They will then work in small teams to create their own drills, set to 19th century music. Download curriculum map for this lesson.
