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A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life


 California Standard 3.5.1 Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present. 

There was always something to do on a farm! Children had regular chores. Animals had to be given food and water. Children helped with chores in the house, too. In the past, many farm children only went to school when they didn’t have to help with planting or picking the crops.

 

Case Study
The Wheeler Farm

Learn about farm life in Utah. Today, the Wheeler Farm shows what farming life was like from 1890 to 1920.

 
 

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Predictions in 1900

Read about some of the predictions that people made in 1900. They thought many things were going to happen in the new century. Which predictions were right? Do you have predictions for this century?

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Milking the Cows

Do you get up and do chores before coming to school? If you lived on a farm, you might get up before sunrise to milk the cows.

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Agriculture Game

Test your agricultural knowledge with this game from the USDA’s Farm Service Agency.