Recommended for grades 4 - 12

How did colonial people build homes with just hand tools and human power? Discover the answers by becoming a construction crew and working as a team to assemble a large-scale model of an 18th-century post-and-beam house. Then explore a real historic house built on the same plan, looking for clues to its construction and the lives of the people who lived there long ago.

Supports NH Frameworks: Language Arts W:CO:1, Social Studies EC:5, GE:2, GE:4, GE:5, HI:4, HI:5, Mathematics CCR:3