The Daniel Boone Home offers tours and hands on programs for students of all ages.
Reservation Forms:
• 1 1/2 Hour Tour
• 2 Hour Tour
School Group Tour
The Daniel Boone Home offers a specialized 90 minute tour of the Boone Home and three buildings from the Boonesfield Village. The tour focuses on the Boone family history and life on the frontier. The 1 ½ hour school tour takes students through 3 out of the 4 levels of the Daniel Boone Home and through 3 buildings in the Boonesfield Village of your choice. (Buildings available in the village are the schoolhouse, dressmaker’s shop, carpenter’s shop, Old Peace Chapel, general store, grist mill, and home of Squire Boone.) A 15 minute film on the life of Daniel Boone is also shown prior to the beginning of each tour. There are picnic tables available for lunches.
Admission Pricing:
90 minute tour: $5.00 per student and any accompanying adult.
The teacher and bus driver for the attending class will receive free admission.
K-12 Hands On Programs
The Daniel Boone Home provides students and teachers with a unique hands-on approach to learning about life on the frontier. A variety of programs are offered that teach subjects like Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, and Geography. Teachers are able to pick and choose which programs are suitable for their class’s needs. Certain programs can be correlated with MAP testing. A 15 minute film on the life of Daniel Boone is shown prior to each Hands-On tour.
Each hands-on program will last for approximately 20-30 minutes depending on the size of the group. A total of 4 programs can be chosen to meet the 2 hour minimum requirement. Some programs offered are dependent upon weather conditions since they are held outside. Programs, listed below, are labeled to show if they are indoor or outdoor. If by chance the weather should not be ideal on the day of the hands on tour, an indoor Hands-On program will be provided.
The Daniel Boone Home offers an indoor program to students. This program will be provided on days when the weather does not permit outdoor programs to be run. The indoor program will also be the program offered from November 1, 2009 – February 28.
Reservation Forms:
• 1 1/2 Hour Tour
• 2 Hour Tour
School Group Tour
The Daniel Boone Home offers a specialized 90 minute tour of the Boone Home and three buildings from the Boonesfield Village. The tour focuses on the Boone family history and life on the frontier. The 1 ½ hour school tour takes students through 3 out of the 4 levels of the Daniel Boone Home and through 3 buildings in the Boonesfield Village of your choice. (Buildings available in the village are the schoolhouse, dressmaker’s shop, carpenter’s shop, Old Peace Chapel, general store, grist mill, and home of Squire Boone.) A 15 minute film on the life of Daniel Boone is also shown prior to the beginning of each tour. There are picnic tables available for lunches.
Admission Pricing:
90 minute tour: $5.00 per student and any accompanying adult.
The teacher and bus driver for the attending class will receive free admission.
K-12 Hands On Programs
The Daniel Boone Home provides students and teachers with a unique hands-on approach to learning about life on the frontier. A variety of programs are offered that teach subjects like Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, and Geography. Teachers are able to pick and choose which programs are suitable for their class’s needs. Certain programs can be correlated with MAP testing. A 15 minute film on the life of Daniel Boone is shown prior to each Hands-On tour.
Each hands-on program will last for approximately 20-30 minutes depending on the size of the group. A total of 4 programs can be chosen to meet the 2 hour minimum requirement. Some programs offered are dependent upon weather conditions since they are held outside. Programs, listed below, are labeled to show if they are indoor or outdoor. If by chance the weather should not be ideal on the day of the hands on tour, an indoor Hands-On program will be provided.
Math
Science
Social Studies
Multiple Subjects
Indoor Program|
Determining an acre |
Determine the length of one’s pace and use this to measure an acre. Then compare and contrast to a French Arpent. (outdoor program) |
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How tall is that tree? |
Estimate the height of a tree. (outdoor program) |
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How wide is that river? |
Estimate the width of a river. (outdoor program) |
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For Sale, Barter, or Trade |
Students learn lessons of assigned values, credit, and money (indoor program) |
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Science
| Black Powder, White Smoke |
See a black powder demonstration and learn about the chemistry involved in firing a gun (outdoor program) |
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| Fire Building |
Learn the chemical and energy process while building a fire using tools used during the pioneer times. (outdoor/indoor program) |
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Social Studies
| Daniel Boone House Tour |
Tour the Daniel Boone Home. (indoor program) |
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| Rail Splitting |
Use a handmade wedge (glut) and a maul (beetle) to split fence from cedar logs. (outdoor program) |
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| Frontier Games |
Hoop and Stick, Graces, Stilts and other games of the period. (outdoor program) |
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| Candle dipping |
Create candles, the only reliable source of light during the Explore the Carpenter Shop and learn to use the draw horse, draw knife and other essential tools. (indoor program) |
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| Reading, Writing, and Ciphering | Students will participate in a day of pioneer education in the one room school house. | |
| Woodworkers Shop |
Explore the Carpenter Shop and learn to use the shaving horse, draw knife and other essential tools. (indoor program) |
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| Fiddle Music | Learn the importance of the fiddle in Pioneer times and be able to differentiate the types of tunes played. (This program is only available on certain days. You will need to ask a Boone Home representative about availability.) | |
Multiple Subjects
| A cord of wood | What can you get from a cord of wood? (Math, Science; Outdoor program) | |
| Why here? | Answer the questions why settlers picked this spot to build their homes; what the land was like and how it has changed today. (Science, Social Studies; outdoor program) | |
| Sketch Journaling | Learn simple techniques of sketching nature and other observations enhanced by comments and notations. (Language Arts, Art; Outdoor/Indoor program, must bring paper and pencil) | |
The Daniel Boone Home offers an indoor program to students. This program will be provided on days when the weather does not permit outdoor programs to be run. The indoor program will also be the program offered from November 1, 2009 – February 28.
| Daniel Boone Home House Tour | Tour of the Daniel Boone Home. | |
| Carpenter Shop | Explore the Carpenter Shop and learn to use the shaving horse, draw knife, and other essential tools. | |
| Reading, Writing, and Ciphering | Students will participate in a day of pioneer education in the one room school house. | |
| For Sale, Barter, or Trade | Students learn lessons of assigned values, credit, and money. | |
| Fiddle Music | Learn the importance of the fiddle in Pioneer times and be able to differentiate the types of tunes played. (This program is only available on certain days. You will need to ask a Boone Home representative about availability.) | |
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