Posted by Michelle Vidotto | Posted in Social | Posted on June 2, 2015
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
We went to Fort Whoop-Up in Lethbridge. We learned many things about the Native Americans and fur traders. The tour leaders name was David. He explained many things to us. They used to trad whiskey to the Blackfoot for pans, pots and other things. This started to cause problems for the Native Americans. The Native Americans that lived in the fort either worked or traded. Over the winter to stay warm they used to wear long underwear and they would sew themselves into the long underwear. They didn’t take a bath for six months and their hair grew through the long underwear.
They didn’t have cars or trucks. They used 10-18 oxen to pull three wagons. From Burdett to Lethbridge it is one hour on the bus. With the wagon it would be five days with 10-18 oxen. The hospital was far away and many people didn’t make it there. The man didn’t want to hit the oxen with a whip if they didn’t move fast because they would get angry so he yelled, ” WHOOP- UP!!” The first door we went into the Fort was the RCMP room. There were two people that lived in the room up in the loft to sleep. All of the other items used in the loft were down below. There was a table and their office below.
Beside the office was a jail with one bunk-bed. Do you know why they slept up in the loft? The reason was it was warmer. Do you know why they said good night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bed bugs bite? The Native Americans used to have lot of bed bugs, so in the morning they had to spray their beds with bug spray. Sleep tight means they had to tighten their beds every time they went to sleep, otherwise they would fall down. They didn’t have bathrooms in their house, so they had a bed pan under their beds. If they would fell out of bed, they would fall into the pan! Yucky! I really enjoyed the field trip!
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.
Students are creating videos using the Book Creator App to research plants and animals located in the Prairies.