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Rochester fourth-graders learn cultural history at the Great Bay Discovery Center

ROCHESTER — Superintendent Kyle Repucci shared that fourth graders from East Rochester and Nancy Loud Elementary School visited the Great Bay Discovery Center earlier this month for hands-on lessons about local cultural history.

Located in the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Greenland, the Great Bay Discovery Center offers children and adults hands-on opportunities to learn about the natural and cultural history of the region.

Fourth-graders from East Rochester and Nancy Loud Elementary School center in the crisp, beautiful Oct. 11 they were able to visit and participate in exercises at five stations at the center, as part of an interactive fall cultural history program. readings appropriate to social studies curriculum standards for grades 2 through 5.

At the Bay of Bounty station, students learned about the different tools that have been used throughout history to harvest resources from the bay, including trapping, fishing, ice fishing, and shelling.

Trail of the Arrowhead station on a trail walk, where students learned about the history of the Abenaki and Pennacook Nations, and explored how the Native Americans survived and lived on the land.

Tom Wiggin told the station that Wiggin and his father farm hay from the Bay. Wiggin is a fictional character who is based on a real family that lived in Great Bay, 1800s, when farmers cut hay from the salt marshes to graze their cattle.

The Great Bay Country Store station taught students about the gundalow boats that carried goods from town to town before there were tractors and more modern means of transportation, and how products such as cloth, flour, smoked fish and sugar were distributed to country stores for purchase or trade. The disciples were then able to make supplies from the village.

Finally, the students try to break the bullet and break them to use in cooking food.