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Huble Homestead Historic Site is located on traditional Lheidli T'enneh keyoh.
In Class Education
Our in-class education program is back for the 2023/2024 school year! Presentations are able to be booked between October and April, are free of charge, and are approximately 45 minutes to an hour in length. To book your presentation, please use our online booking form.
Teaching children about local history and early 1900s lifestyle in a hands-on and fun way is the goal of the Huble Homestead In-Class Education program. Educators know that learning history can become dull if it is not presented in an engaging way. These kits have been designed to incorporate interactive elements like games, storybooks, and usable artifacts to involve the imagination of the students as well as teach.
Our Education Coordinator delights children of all ages with fun and interactive presentations. They inform and educate about this important time in our local history through humour, stories, games, toys, books, artifacts, and hands-on learning. The Education Coordinator will visit schools throughout the region to present the material in costume.
These presentations are designed to cover the Curriculum Objectives set by the Ministry of Education. For a detailed list of the objectives covered by the presentations, please download the documents below the presentation description.
These free, in-class presentations are possible thanks to the financial support of the Province of British Columbia.
In-Class Living History Presentations
Historic Huble Homestead (K-Grade 3)
This presentation is designed educate children about the local history of Huble Homestead by using games and stories that to engage younger students. Students are introduced to the Huble family and the animals that work and live on and around the homestead through the use of pictures and costumes. Students also compare the lives of children from the 1900s to their own by discussing the daily activities of a settler child. The presentation concludes with a hands-on activity in which the children play with old-fashioned wooden toys.
Curriculum Content addressed: personal and family history and traditions; needs and wants of individuals and families; people, places, and events in the local community, relationships between humans and their environment; aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures.
Historic K-3 Curriculum Objectives
Introduction to the Lheidli T'enneh (Gr. K-3)
This presentation offers a look into the daily life and culture of the Lheidli T’enneh band in the early 1900s. Emphasis is placed on the role of seasons in the seasonal round, with food, medicine, art, and leisure being discussed briefly. The importance of legends and oral history in First Nations communities will also be explained. Students will be encouraged to compare and contrast the way of life of the Lheidli T'enneh to the students' own lifestyles. The presentation involves a felt board activity which encourages student participation.
Curriculum Content addressed: people, places, and events in the local community, and in local First Peoples communities; relationships between a community and its environment; cultural characteristics and ways of life of local First Peoples; oral history, traditional stories, and artifacts as evidence about past First Peoples cultures.
Intro to the Lheidli T'enneh K-3 Curriculum Objectives
Historic Huble Homestead (Gr 4-5)
This presentation is designed to discuss Huble Homestead and the Seebach & Huble General Store in relation to the fur trade. Students will learn about life as a fur trade, the challenges they would face, and the different strategies they would have used to overcome those challenges. Pictures are used to discuss the different types of animals that would have been trapped locally. Students will also get to interact with real animal pelts.
Curriculum Content addressed: the history of the local community; resources and economic development in different regions of Canada, and the fur trade in Canada and British Columbia.
Historic 4-5 Curriculum Objectives
Introduction to the Lheidli T'enneh (Gr. 4-5)
This presentation focuses on the broader effects of European contact as Canada became increasing populated with settlers, and uses the Lheidli T’enneh as a primary example. Students are introduced to the culture of the Lheidli T'enneh and discuss their traditional territory and their daily life in the early 1900s. Students will engage in a fur trading activity to illustrate the impact of different European goods on the Lheidli T'enneh's life style.
Curriculum Content addressed: early contact, trade, cooperation, and conflict between First Peoples and European peoples; the impact of colonization on First Peoples societies in British Columbia and Canada, the history of the local community and of local First Peoples communities.
Life at Huble Homestead (Gr 4-5)
This presentation is delivered lecture style focusing on four categories: Typical Day, Living by the Season, Women and Children, and Meet Basic Needs. Each of these four sections delves into detailed descriptions of settler lifestyles. While there is no specific hands on portion for this presentation there are pictures, artifacts, and plenty of time for discussion period giving students a chance to think critically about history. Due to the more discussion based nature of this presentation, Life at Huble works well for combining multiple classes.
Curriculum Content addressed: the history of the local community.
Life at Huble 4-5 Curriculum Objectives
Old-Fashioned Christmas (Gr K-4)
Experience an old-fashioned Christmas in your own classroom with this seasonal presentation. Your students will decorate a traditional Christmas tree, play a parlour game and make a Christmas present for your classroom. This program is available during the last week of November and through December only, and fills up fast. Book early!
Curriculum Content addressed: personal and family history and traditions; needs and wants of individuals and families; aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures.
Historic Huble Homestead (Gr 6-7)
This presentation is designed to teach students about the intricacies of daily life on a homestead and how families like the Hubles would have met their needs. The students will be encouraged to compare the social structure, life style and environmental coping strategies from pioneer times to present day. The class will participate in making and sampling homemade butter.
Curriculum Content addressed: human responses to particular geographic challenges and opportunities, including climates, landforms, and natural resources; the urbanization and migration of people.
Historic 6-7 Curriculum Objectives
Critical History (Gr 9-10)
This presentation has been created to work with the high school Social Studies curriculum. The goal of the program is to engage students in local history, help them to recognise the differences in secondary and primary sources, use critical thinking when learning about the past and to encourage them to take history at a secondary level after graduation. The presentation will begin with the tragic story of the Rennie party, who came to the Huble Homestead area in 1862 in search of gold and ultimately met with murder and cannibalism. Students will be allowed to question and discuss historically based ideas.
Curriculum Content addressed: exploration and expansion; global demographic shifts physiographic features of Canada.
For In-Class Use