Fort Sumner/Bosque Redondo Memorial Virtual Classroom

Lesson Plan

How to Build and Use an Adobe Brick Mold

Learn to create your own mold and then make adobe bricks 1/7th the size of bricks used at the fort.

Coming April 27th

Lesson Plan

Life and Culture of Navajo and Mescalero Apache People

Learn about these two cultures before they were changed by interaction with Spanish or Americans.

Age Group: K-12

Unit Length Lesson Plan

Unit Using "Navajo Long Walk"

The story of Bosque Redondo Reservation using the picture book written by Joseph Bruchac. The unit includes lesson plan, activities and primary source materials.

Grades 4th-6th

Activity

Yucca Soap

Staying clean has always been a part of the human story. Learn about the laundresses at the fort and how the Native Americans used yucca root to make soap.

Age Group: K-12

Activity

Tipis and Brush Structures

Learn to make a tipi model and how the Apache and Navajo lived while interned at the fort.

Age Group: K-12

Interactive Lesson and Exhibit

In 1864 When a poem is More Than

On-going submissions accepted

Explore a lesson that is creative and allows you to become a creator and question the single story of history.

Interactive Exhibit

Activity Lesson

Luck of the Draw Game

Create and play a board game and learn about maps, acequias and what happened to the crops and people at Fort Sumner. From 2 - 6 players.

For learners of all ages

Activity

Make and Weave on a Cardboard Loom

Follow along videos to first make your own cardboard loom and then learn how to weave on your loom.

For Learners of All Ages

Unit Length Lesson Plan

Bosque Redondo: Carleton's Failed "Experiment"

Inclusive lesson beginning with the war against the Navajo and Mescalero Apache, forced marches to Fort Sumner, conditions at the reservation and finally peace.

For 6th grade through High School

Activity

Hardtack - jawbreakers or worm castles

Life at the fort and reservation was a hungry place. No one had enough to eat. Experience first hand one staple for soldiers - hardtack. Easy to make, lasts a long time and hard to eat.

Age group: K-12