Unit Study Based On Little House On The Prairie Books
Lately my family has been watching a lot of Little House on the Prairie. I am finding the show as enjoyable as I did when I was a small child. I am putting together this unit study to use in the near future with my homeschool. I hope you will find the resources useful for your family.
Great Background Books
Learn More About Laura Ingalls Wilder
Here are some sites that you can learn more about this fascinating woman.
- The Official Site!
- This is the official historical site for Little House on the Prairie.
- Dugout Site
- This site tells about when the Ingalls lived in a small dugout in Walnut Grove.
- Time Line
- This is a partial time line of Laura's life.
- Wikipedia- Little House
- A good size biography on Wikipedia of The Little House on the Prairie.
- Wikipedia- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A good size biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
- Laura Ingalls Timeline
- The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Activities and Worksheets
- Big Woods Activities
- Here are several activities to go along with Little House in the Big Woods.
- Kid's Activity Center
- Here are puzzles and quizzes for the various books.
- Little House Activities
- Here are several activities to go along with The Little House on the Prairie Book.
- Plum Creek Activities
- Here are activities to go with On the Banks of Plum Creek.
- Activities
- Here are various activities that can go along with the books.
- Vocabulary- Big Woods
- Vocabulary from Little House in the Big Woods.
- Big Woods Worksheets
- Worksheets for Little House in the Big Woods.
- Farmer Boy Printables
- Download free home education printables, and upload your own.
- Little House on the Prairie Printables
- Download free home education printables, and upload your own.
- Prairie Notebooking Pages part 1
- File Hosted for Free on HSLaunch.com.
- Prairie Notebooking Pages part 2
- File Hosted for Free on HSLaunch.com.
- Quilting
- From The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
- Little House in Big Woods- Word Search
- Easy Fun School
- Little House in Big Woods- Word Search #2
- Easy Fun School
- Farmer Boy Word Search
- Easy Fun School
- Little House on the Prairie Word Search
- Easy Fun School
- Little House Writing Activities
- Writing activities for all the books.
- SCORE-Little House in the Big Woods
- Copyright©1997 -- San Diego
- Little House Activities
- From The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
- Little House in the Big Woods Vocabulary
- Garden of Praise
- Activity Pages
- The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Musem, located in Mansfield Missouri. Here you can learn more about where the Little House books were written.
- Little House Activity Pages
- The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, South Dakota (SD). Curators of the Ingalls Home museum and Surveyors' House
- Make a Reading Journal
- From Little House Books
- Little House Word Scramble
- From Little House Books
- Little House Word Search
- From Little House Books
Activities
Here are some activity ideas:-make a time line
-map Laura's travels
-make a lapbook
-make an interactive notebook
-build a diorama
Science
- American Kennel Club - Bulldog
- Jack was a bulldog. Learn more about bulldogs here!
- Bulldog Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
- Bulldog Printout. Jack, Laura's dog was a bull dog.
Activity Books
Recipes
- Recipes
- Here are several recipes of foods from the books.
- Maple Candy
- Maple candy was made in Little House in the Big Woods.
- Gingerbread
- Here is a gingerbread recipe.
- Vintage Recipes: The Prairie Farmer (1884)
- Good set of recipes!
- White Cheese
- Make your own cheese!
- Johnny Cakes
- Easy Fun School
- Little House Recipes
- From Little House Books
- Little House Recipes and Craft
- From Little House Books
Prairie Life
- School Teacher's Rules
- An example list of rules for school teachers on the prairie.
- Wikipedia- prairie
- Some information about the prairie.
- Wikipedia- Covered Wagon
- Some information on the covered wagon.
- Covered Wagon
- A lot of information about the covered wagon including a diagram.
- Provisions
- What would you take on a covered wagon?
- US History of the 1800's unit study
- School Express
- Information about Prairie Towns
- From The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Prairie Life
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Chitownchica wrote
Just what I was looking for. We are passing through Mansfield so the girls and I are re-reading all the books. Thanks! Awesome lens.
Posted June 23, 2009
Jimmie wrote...
I LOVE these books. I wanted Pa to be my dad. Reading them with my daughter now still makes me tear up.
Posted April 02, 2009
TheWhistler wrote...
I read several of the books, but to tell you the truth I didn't really enjoy them.
Still others seem too.
Posted March 31, 2009
