Students visit a school, a butcher shop, a bicycle repair shop and other businesses by taking an imaginary stroll through a St. Paul neighborhood. One hour Students learn about the trading of goods between Europeans and Indians by examining and discussing artifacts. Discussion of the roles of various participants in the fur trade is an important part of this lesson. Students investigate the various jobs done by both men and women in the fur trade. They also consider how the exchange of goods, skills and ideas in the fur trade affected two cultures.
Students examine artifacts and draw conclusions about the role of men and women in the fur trade.
When two cultures interact, neither is ever the same again. In this lesson, students explore the impact of the fur trade by discovering and discussing the changes that objects and ideas represented for both Europeans and Indians. With this question, students are introduced to the concept of leaving a homeland to start a new life in a strange country far away. They examine the contents of a trunk to determine what some immigrants chose to bring to their new homes in Minnesota. Finally, students imagine they are immigrants and decide what they might pack in their own trunks.