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Kimball, South Dakota

Kimball, South Dakota. Video- Google Earth. Town History. J.W. Kimball One of the chief railroad surveyors working in the area. Kimball Founded in 1880. Andover towns first name Renamed since a town in South Dakota was already called Andover. Tractor Museum. Read

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Kimball, South Dakota

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  1. Kimball, South Dakota

  2. Video- Google Earth

  3. Town History J.W. Kimball One of the chief railroad surveyors working in the area. Kimball Founded in 1880 Andover towns first name Renamed since a town in South Dakota was already called Andover

  4. Tractor Museum • Read • http://sdtractormuseum.home.comcast.net/~sdtractormuseum/index.html

  5. Health Challenge • Survival on the prairie • Worked together • Household chores • Farm work • Children: worked hard around the homestead each day • Complete Helping at Home activity sheet • Set a goal to do 3 chores on sheet this week • Track progress in passport

  6. Rest Stop- At the Pump Activity Sheet • We are half way through our trip! • Time to fuel up the car • Different types of food to fuel your body just as there is to fuel your car • What are the types of gasoline? • Do they cost the same? • How are they different?

  7. State History • The move west • To buy farmland at reasonable prices

  8. Farming in the Past • Farming for Pioneers • Horses/ oxen to power farm equipment • Farmer guided from behind or rode on the equipment • Very hard work • Ground: hadn’t been plowed before and prairie grasses were very deep

  9. Farming in the Past • Planted • Corn, Wheat, and Oats • Livestock • Pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens

  10. Farming Today • Farming Today • Motorized tractors • Big machinery • Plant • Corn, Wheat, and oats • Alfalfa, soybeans, sunflowers and flaxseed • Livestock • Pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens • Geese, turkeys, and bison

  11. Make the Match: Cropping game • www.healthedventure.org • Online • Identify common crops and livestock found in South Dakota?

  12. South Dakota Corn • Take turns reading each fun fact

  13. Health Challenge • List 3 chores you will do this week.

  14. Travel Log • It was fun touring the South Dakota Tractor Museum at Kimball and eating popcorn balls. My favorite part about the tractor museum was _________________ because ____________________________.

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