Scavenger Hunt

Although every class may not have the change to visit each station, if you brush up on your pioneer skills you may be able to answer these questions about everyday life on the frontier.

Survival Skills:  

1. What items were needed to start a fire?

2. Name something besides currency that was used as a trade good.

3. What animal was used to carry supplies or hides?

4. Name a tool all surveyors relied upon.

5. This instrument provided protection and was used for hunting game.

6. What essential worker from a fort would have made the iron tools in the Frank T. Barnes Iron collection?

7. A popular gun of the time period. (Hint: it is not short).

8. Name another use for songs.

9. This was made from deer skins and turned into clothing, shoes, saddles and pouches.

10. In the right combination, this could be used to cure various illnesses.

Home & Hearth:

11. This material was used to make linen clothing, twine and rope.

12. What was used to make butter?

13. Various natural materials turn this from white to blue, yellow, red, brown, etc.

14. What was the name for a period tool used for producing strips or bands of hand woven warp-faced cloth?

15. Every country has one of these – the United States of America has a red, white & blue one.

16. Another word for “beliefs” or “traditions”.

17. How did settlers acquire clothing in the 18th century?

18. Girls might learn to do this at a young age – the result would keep them warm in the winter.

Entertainment:

19. In the colonial period, this person was known as a street entertainer-he could probably pull a rabbit out of his hat.

20. What is the term for oral history (or spinning a good yarn)?

21. Martha and George Washington probably played this game when they were children.

Native Ways:

22. An ancient weapon made of stone and wood-you’ll see both Natives and settlers carrying them. (Hint: hold onto your scalp!)

23. Name a tribe of Native Americans that were found in Kentucky at this time-together, they were known as Eastern Woodland Indians.

24. Native Americans preserved meant in the form of ____ ?

25. What country did the Native Americans side with during the Revolutionary War?

BONUS QUESTIONS:

People of Painted Stone Station:

26. Who founded Painted Stone Station?

27. It took several people to operate this eighteenth century weapon.

28. What year were the inhabitants of Painted Stone Station attacked?

ANSWERS 2023

Answers to School Day Scavenger Hunt

                 Friday, September 8, 2023

Although every class may not have the change to visit each station, if you brush up on your pioneer skills you may be able to answer these questions about everyday life on the frontier.

Survival Skills:

1. Flint, steel & tow (tinder)

2. Guns, blankets, horses, copper kettles, beads, silver trinkets

3. Horse

4. Compass, string

5. Gun

6. Blacksmith

7. Long rifle

8. Handing down traditions, recording history, storytelling

9. Leather

10. Herbs

Home & Hearth:

11. Flax

12. Cream, a churn, wooden paddles and molds

13. Yarn

14. An inkle loom

15. Flag

16. Customs

17. They made everything they wore. They used spinning, weaving and sewing to make their own clothes: shirts, weskits, britches, petticoats, shifts, etc.

18. Learn how to use a spinning wheel.

Entertainment:

19. Magician

20. Storytelling

21. Game of Graces

Native Ways:

22. Tomhawk

23. Shawnee, Cherokee, Miami, Delaware, Iroquois

24. Jerky or pemmican

25. Great Britain

BONUS QUESTIONS:

People of Painted Stone Station:

26. Squire Boone (note: “Squire” was his name, not a title)

27. Cannon

28. 1781