Today, I have rounded up 30 fun resources for learning about Daniel Boone. He straddles quite a few epoch time periods in American history.
Learning About Daniel Boone
Planning on updating more of my unit studies, even though being patient is not part of my personality, I hope to slowly share them with you throughout the year.
Look below at these ideas for studying about Daniel Boone and about the colonial and frontier time periods.
Language Arts Ideas for Learning About Daniel Boone
Read this short story Daniel Boone’s Dear from American Folklore. Use it to write a longer story or rewrite it. Read the Obituary on Daniel Boone and describe an American Folk Hero.
Copywork. Grab some quotes from here about Daniel Boone for copywork.
Also, look at these classroom activities.
Life During the Colonial Period and on The Frontier During the Life of Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone’s father was a blacksmith. Download a free .pdf which lists the different jobs during the colonial period. Also, learn about the food eaten during the colonial period.
Too, grab a huge 205 page free download about Women on the Frontier.
I have not read all the way through it, but it has some great pictures and stories. Sometimes in teaching my sons about explorers, I overlook just how resourceful woman had to be too. This .pdf is a nice reminder full of stories.
Free printable lesson plan about the frontier and frontier life.
Free lesson plan for directions on making a colonial recipe, an activity for quilting and dyeing fabrics with household fruits and vegetables.
You’ll love learning more about American History with these fun hands-on units from Home School in The Woods.
Geography Ideas for Studying About Daniel Boone.
- Research the history of Pennsylvania.
- Research about the Appalachian Mountains. Read about the Appalachian Mountains here in the free .pdf publication.
- Research the history of the state of Kentucky. Print a map here about Kentucky.
Free Maps of the Cumberland Gap Area/Wilderness Road.
Wilderness Survival Skills
Next, you can’t lean about Daniel Boone without learning about wilderness survival skills. Watch this YouTube video about How to Navigate the Wilderness. Also, look at Fire Starting with Sticks.
Learn about how to tan deer hides and small fur skins.
Too, download this Wilderness Survival workbook. And this fun freebie too which is Outside Survival.
Events During the Life of Daniel Boone
And if you want to learn about the colonial period you’ll love this fun hands-on resource from Home School in the Woods.
In 1755, Daniel Boone went to fight in the French and Indian War. You’ll love my French and Indian War lapbook.
Also, he also lived through the American Revolutionary War.
Grab my free American Revolution War lapbook.
Hands-On Activities for Learning About Daniel Boone
Build a Fort. Really cool project for those that take their fort building serious.
Next, make a fringed hunting shirt. It is important to be sure we teach our kids accurate clothing of the time period.
So this site, N. Hurst Historic Tailoring, has a very helpful .pdf with pictures that explains how it was done. Click on Fringe on the American Hunting Shirt pdf.
Also as shown from the picture above, you can make an easy fringed shirt. In addition, look at this site to show the large lapels on Daniel Boone’s clothing. Lots of good pictures here to show time period clothing and their history.
Play games children would have played while living on the frontier.
How to build a log cabin diorama– YouTube video.
Grab a free minibook at Practical Pages. Nadene has a page about a spinning wheel to describe the steps on how to spin.
Media about Daniel Boone
History of the Early American West – The Frontier (part 1) YouTube. Here is the description: In this mini-documentary, historian Darren R. Reid (University of Edinburgh) explores the development of the frontier in the years leading up to the American Revolution. From Daniel Boone’s exploration of Kentucky in 1769 to the outbreak of Dunmore’s War in 1774, this video is the perfect introduction to the early American west.
A History of the Early American West – The Frontier (part 2) Time: 10:41
Watch National Geographic: Appalachian Trail on Netflix. 50 minutes. “National Geographic straps on the boots to explore the splendors of the Appalachian Trail, the longest marked trail in the United States.”
Books and Fun Resources To Learn About Daniel Boone
Then, you’ll love these books and fun resources to round out your study about the life of Daniel Boone.
Finally, we loved learning so much about Daniel Boone that I created a lapbook.
Also, you may love these other fun resources:
- Iroquois Unit Study and Lapbook
- Lewis and Clark Unit Study and Lapbook
- American Revolution Unit Study and Lapbook.
- Pioneer Living and Cloth Dyeing (Hands-on History)
- Lewis and Clark: Hands-on History. Make a Char Cloth
- The Ultimate Guide to Brave Explorers (Great and Small)
- 6 Unit Study Resources: Mountain Men – Explorers of the West
- 100 BEST Books for Kids from all 50 States (Easy Geography)
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As a Kentucky girl, I HAD to pin this resource about Daniel Boone. We’re actually planning a field trip to Fort Boonesborough this fall.
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We would love to go to Fort Boonesborough. We thought we had a chance last year, but it may be this year.
I don’t think we’ve ever studied Daniel Boone except in passing. These are great resources.
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He is one of those characters in history that you want to take time to ponder about because of how many overlapping significant events happened in his lifetime. Between serving in the American Revolutionary War and being involved in the French and Indian War, and the way he opened up the West and freed “new blood” lol from the Eastern Seaboard, it is so action packed. I found it easier to talk to the boys about the other events they may have found boring in American history if we looked at them through the eyes of Daniel Boone.
My .02 cents for the day! lol