MATERIALS: Ax or saw, wood and stump, flint.
 
 

DIRECTIONS: Use ax to cut down a tree.

Put the wood on the tree stump in order to cut it.

Using the ax, cut the wood on the tree stump.

Put the chopped wood in the fireplace.

Take a piece of flint and strike it with another piece of flint.

That should make a spark and create a fire.
 

USES FOR: Cooking and heating.

By using wood and making fire, people could heat their homes and cook food . Fire was needed to make tools and to heat fat to make candle. Fire had many uses and was needed by the colonial people for many things.
 

Send comments and inquires to the third grade teachers from Germantown Academy, Micki Vieille, Sandy Bennett, Cara Herold.

Technical assistances and design furnished by Carol Siwinski, Curricular Technology Specialist, Germantown Academy.