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Subject Guides
Little House on the Prairie: Life of a Pioneer Family
These resources will help you as you develop your inquiry research project and makerspace activity about life on the frontier. Remember to write down all questions and ideas in your library notebook.
Website Links
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Biographical information
1 Laura Ingalls Wilder
Information on the Homestead Act
2 Homestead Act
What was it like to travel in a covered wagon?
3 Covered Wagon
Churning butter was a diffcult chore. Find out more about how it's done.
4 Butter Churn
Videos
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Take a tour of Laura's family home in DeSmet, South Dakota.
5 DeSmet, SD
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A pioneer family and their journey West in a covered wagon.
6 Covered Wagons
A video tribute including actual photographs.
7 Laura Ingalls Wilder
A day in the life of a pioneer child.
8 Pioneer Life
Books
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Farmer Boy written by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9 Almonzo Wilder
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A true story about a pioneer boy in Indiana.
10 Log
Background information about another book in the series.
11 Little House in the Big Woods
An illustrated book about life on the frontier.
12 Frontier Living
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