Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm | Programs : Teacher Resources

TEACHER RESOURCES
Before Your Visit - After Your Visit - Program Openings - Animal Friend Sponser

Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm is committed to providing educators with the best and most useful tools to assist them in using their visit to Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm as a part of thier educational process. This section of our web site provides information specific to the needs of teachers - lesson plans, historical timelines, information on farm animals and much more. Please be sure to also check our Educational Programs section for more information for all school group opportunities.

Note: Our downloadable documents (pdf) require Adobe Reader.

We are always looking for sites that would be useful to teachers planning a visit to Quiet Valley. If you know of a site that would be useful or have suggestions in general, please email us.

Before Your Visit:

Learn more about Quiet Valley's Context::

- Quiet Valley's National Register Form
- Marketplace for the Mind (lesson plans, etc. about teaching agriculture)
- Agriculture in the Classroom (lesson plans)
- It's Just A Barn (lesson plan from explorepahistory.com)
- Conner Prairie's History Online resource page
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
- Genealogical Research Page about Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania's agricultural history also from the PHMC

Quiet Valley Documents and Resources:

- Pre-Tour Planner
- Emergency Plan
- Quiet Valley and Pennsylvania's Academic Standards for History
- Quiet Valley and Pennsylvania's Academic Standards for Science & Technology
- Quiet Valley's Families
- Quiet Valley's Family Tree (1765 - 1913)
- Historical Children at Quiet Valley
- One Room School Information Sheet

After Your Visit:

- Crossword puzzle - see how much you remember from your visit.
- Follow-up Questions for use in your classroom
- Student and Teacher Evaluations - let us know how we are doing!
- Fictional story of a little girl at Quiet Valley written by one of our Home School Program participants.
- Field Trip Workbook

Program Openings:

Winter and Spring 2010 Openings *
(Please note: we now accept 1st Grade & Above)

Please Call 570-992-6161 for Reservations

February
Winter Programs
22

March
Winter Programs
1st (not Molly), 5, 8, 9 & 10 (not Molly), 11 (not FHA or Molly), 12th

Spring Tours Begin
29 - 8 classes
30 - 3 classes
31 - 8 classes

April
2 - 8 classes
5 - 8 classes
7 - 8 classes
8 - 2 classes
9 - 8 classes
12 - 8 classes
13 - 3 classes
14 - 5 classes
15 - 5 classes
19 - 8 classes
20 - 5 classes
21 - 5 classes
22 - 3 classes
27 - 3 classes
28 - 1 class

May
4 - 1 class
5 - 1 class
14 - 1 class
24 - 1 class

June
2 - 1 class
8 - 3 classes
9 - 4 classes
10 - 8 classes
11 - 1 classes
14 - 4 classes

* Please note that 1 "class" is room for 30 individuals (students and adults) -
this is the maximum space some of our buildings/rooms will allow at one time.
We generally can schedule 8 classes per day. Openings subject to change.

Farm Animal Friend Sponser:

Your classroom or school can now become a Farm Animal Friend Sponsor! Click here for information