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Lumbering Unit Intro
Lumbering Unit Intro
study of Michigan History. The Lumbering Industry and the individuals who took risks
during the Lumbering Era played a major role in helping Michigan become a state. It is this
future teachers belief that students become more engaged in their learning if they can
relate and/or understand the people they are studying.
For these reasons this future teacher has chosen to break up the topic of
Lumbering into two units. This first unit focuses on introducing students to the broad topic
of lumbering and the different types of people who helped make Michigan an industrial
state.
SS.I.2.LE.2: Use narratives and graphic data to compare the past of their
local community, the state of Michigan and other parts of the United States
with present day life in those places.
SS.I.2.LE.3: Recount the lives and characters of a variety of individuals
from the past representing their local community, the state of Michigan, and
other parts of the United States
SS.I.3.LE.3: Compose simple narratives of events from the history of the
state of Michigan and the United States
SS.II.1.LE.2: Locate and describe diverse kinds of communities and explain
the reasons for their characteristics and locations
SS.V.1.LE.1: Locate information about local, state and national communities
using a variety of traditional sources, electronic technologies, and direct
observations
SS.V.1LE.3: Interpret social science information about local, state, and
national communities from maps, graphs, and charts.
FA.III.4.E.1: Identify and compare similar characters and situations in
stories and dramas from and about various cultures, illustrate with
classroom dramatizations, and discuss how theater reflects life
This Unit is designed to give an over view of the Lumbering Industry in Michigan, which
occurred from about 1830 to 1900 and act as an introduction to future units on the
Economics of Lumbering and the Events that allowed Michigan to gain statehood.
Contents of Unit:
Lesson 1: Paul Bunyan: An introduction to Lumberjacks and the Lumber industry in Michigan
Topic-introduction/kick off using arts and literature
Time span: 2 hours in one school day
A Shanty Boys Meal- Lesson Plan (2003) Michigan Historical Department of History,
Arts and Libraries Retrieved on July 24, 2006 from
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53124--,00.html
Gills, B.J(2004) They Worked in the Woods: Ojibwe and Wage Labor in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan 1880- 1930 Presented at Great Lakes History Conference,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retrieved on July 7, 2006 from
http://www.public.asu.edu/~bolshoi/webC.V/They_Worked_in_the_Woods.pdf
Hay Paul (1958). On Disneys American Legends Soundtrack. [Compact Disk]. United
States: Walt Disney Records (2002).
Michigan EPIC (2006). Lumbering Archive. [historical images]. Retrieved July 28,
2006 from
http://www.michiganepic.org/lumbering/photoarchive/archive1/index.htm
Overlease, E., & Overlease, W., (1973) A History of Logging in Benzie County, Michigan.
Retrieved July 7, 2006, from http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-
15481_19268_20778-52079--,00.html