Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Author Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author Website http://lauraingallswilder.com/
Author Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Musem, located in Mansfield Missouri. Here you can learn more about where the Little House books were written. http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/
Strong Pioneer Women: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Western Classics http://www.literarytraveler.com/authors/laura_ingalls_wilder.aspx
Author Study http://home.att.net/~cattonn/pioneer.html
Experience a unique journey into Laura’s life and history with a visit to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, South Dakota. http://www.liwms.com/
Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes
My favorite quote: It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laura_ingalls_wilder.html
Laura Ingalls Wilder Birthday February 7, 1867
http://www.edhelper.com/DailyThemes_753.html
Google Timeline of Laura Ingalls Wilder http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=Laura+Ingalls+Wilder&btnG=Search&um=1&scoring=t
Lots of activities from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum http://hoover.nara.gov/LIW/
Almanzo Wilder
Birthday February 13, 1857
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanzo_Wilder
Rose Wilder Lane
Birthday December 5, 1886
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Wilder_Lane
Lesson Plans
Frontier Town http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=EM384&page=teacher
Pioneer America: Pioneer Living http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2279/
Pioneer Life With Laura: A Social Studies And Language Arts Unit http://hoover.archives.gov/LIW/liwedu/liw_teaching_unit.html
American Memory from Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb07.html
Teaching With Documents: Little House in the Census – Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/wilder/
Letters from Laura – Laura Ingalls Wilder used to love to answer letters from children about her Little House on the Prairie books. A retired teacher has carried on her tradition. http://hoover.archives.gov/LIW/dearlaura.html
The Prairie Primer: A Literature Based Unit Study Utilizing the Little House Series The Prairie Primer – A Literature Based Unit Study Utilizing the Little House Series, by Margie Gray (aff)
The Little House Cookbook The Little House Cookbook, by Barbara M. Walker (aff)
My Little House Crafts Book My Little House Crafts Book, by Carolyn Collins and Christianna Eriksson (aff)
Little House in the Big Woods
All About Owls – In “Little House in the Big Woods” by Laura Ingalls Wilder there is a wonderful story involving an owl. Use the following
activities to expand that section of the story or for a mini unit on owls. http://easyfunschool.freeunitstudies.com/LittleHouseOwls.html
Lapbook https://www.homeschoolshare.com/little-house-big-woods-lapbook/
Vocabulary lessons http://gardenofpraise.com/lesson9.htm
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_in_the_Big_Woods
Farmer Boy
http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/files?tagSearch=little%20house%20farmer%20boy
Lapbook https://www.homeschoolshare.com/farmer-boy-unit-study-printables/
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_Boy
Little House on the Prairie
The official historic site of the Little House on the Prairie as designated by the State of Kansas is located southwest of Independence,
Kansas. http://www.littlehouseontheprairie.com/
http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/files?tagSearch=little%20house%20on%20the%20prairie
From Little House to My House: Exploring History and Family Roles http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=879
Lapbook https://web.archive.org/web/20180602134441/http://www.homeschoolshare.com/little_house_on_prairie.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20110808162135/http://www.homeschoolshare.com/little_house_on_prairie.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie_(novel)
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Lapbook http://www.homeschoolshare.com/banks_plum_creek.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Banks_of_Plum_Creek
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Lapbook http://www.homeschoolshare.com/shores_silver_lake.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_the_Shores_of_Silver_Lake
The Long Winter
Lapbook http://www.homeschoolshare.com/long_winter.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Winter_(novel)
Little Town on the Prairie
Lapbook http://www.homeschoolshare.com/little_town_on_the_prairie.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Town_on_the_Prairie
These Happy Golden Years
Lapbook http://www.homeschoolshare.com/these_happy_golden_years.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Happy_Golden_Years
On the Way Home
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Way_Home
The First Four Years
Lapbook http://www.homeschoolshare.com/first_four_years.php
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Four_Years_(novel)
West From Home
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_From_Home
The Road Back
Little House series
Anissa’s Prairie Primer Links
A moderator on the Prairie Primer list in 2001, compiled these links
http://www.geocities.com/anissal/primer.html
A Celebration of Prairie Life
Integrating the Arts Into the Classroom
http://www.op97.k12.il.us/INSTRUCT/IARTS/Prairie/index.html
A bunch of links
These are from The Home School Mom
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/schoolroom/littlehouse.php
A mini unit on Little House in the Big Woods
http://lara5.tripod.com/TrueLightAcademy/LittleHouse.html
A unit study
http://www.geocities.com/~perkinshome/littlehouse.html
All books and about the author
http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/education/guides.html
BookAdventure
List of where their quizzes are for Little house books
http://www.bookadventure.com/ki/bs/ki_bs_bkresults.asp?time=16_16_53
Build a Covered Wagon
http://www.nps.gov/archive/whmi/educate/ortrtg/12or5.htm
Discovery Education: The American Prairie
Ecology & Earth Science lesson plan
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/prairie/
Factmonster
lots of cool activities
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801303.html
Homeschool helper online
site says mainly for pre-k, but, my daughter liked it later.
http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/units/sugar_snow.htm
Index of Lesson Activities to go with ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Books
tons of things to do. Lots of recipes. Many later books listed.
http://easyfunschool.freeunitstudies.com/article1496.html
Ingalls Homestead
http://www.ingallshomestead.com/
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Home Page of Walnut Grove, Minnesota, childhood home of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Walnut Grove is the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, and Wilder Pageant outdoor drama
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl
Welcome to Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl, a website devoted to the life and works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American pioneer and children’s author of the famous “Little House” books. Our site is designed to provide information about Laura Ingalls Wilder and the places and characters mentioned in her books. We have tried to make our site as interactive, informational, and entertaining as possible, and hope that you will enjoy your visit!
http://frodo.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/index.html
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl. part 2
Welcome to Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl. This page was created for Laura’s readers who wish to learn more about Laura and her books. Here, you can find information about Laura’s “little houses” and her friends and family who were made famous in her “Little House”® books. You can listen to the songs played on Pa’s fiddle, and see pictures of the places the Ingalls and Wilder families lived.
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/frames.html
Laura’s Prairie House
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie Definitive Guide
Learning with Little House:Soda Crackers
http://easyfunschool.freeunitstudies.com/SodaCrackers.html
Little House Books
Books, Recipes, Timelines, Games, Quizzes, Guides, and lots more!
http://www.littlehousebooks.com/
Little House Recipes & Crafts
http://www.littlehousebooks.com/pdf/lh-craftsandrecipe.pdf
Little House Teaching Guides
A few guides for the Little House books
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Teachers/TeachingResources.aspx?ReqPId=4
Live outdoor pagent
A family-oriented outdoor drama based on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Walnut Grove, whose writings provided the inspiration for TV’s “Little House on the Prairie.” It is a live performance weekend nights in July with all characters from the Walnut Grove area. This happens every year.
http://www.walnutgrove.org/pageant.htm
Make Your Own Little House Reading Journal
http://www.littlehousebooks.com/pdf/LittleHouseReadingJournal.pdf
Make a Corn Husk Doll
http://www.ontariocorn.org/classroom/husk2.html
Pioneer Puzzle Game
Print out a game to play!
http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Friend/2004.htm/friend%20july%202004.htm/pioneer%20puzzle%20game.htm
PrairiePrimerPluses
This is a link to the Prairie Primer Yahoo group. Prairie Primer is a Literature Unit Study devoted to the Little House series.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PrairiePrimerPluses/
Resources for a Little House Unit Study
http://www.geocities.com/terriebittner/littlehouse.html
Teacher Link
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/wilder.html
Teacher Resource File
excellent list of resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/wilder.htm
atozteacherstuff
lots of activities
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder/