Iron from the Bog: Early Bloomery Iron-Making for Kids History Unit Study (Ages 8-12)

Before factories, and even before the village blacksmith, people had to make iron from the earth itself. This history unit study for ages 8-12 visits a rusty bog and a small clay furnace called a bloomery, where people turned lumps of bog iron into metal they could hammer into tools. It includes a timeline, an original reading ("Iron from the Water"), a labeled "how a bloomery works" diagram, a vocabulary list, activities, a look at a real place where some of the first iron in North America was made, and a hands-on project with no fire: a magnet hunt and a rust-in-a-jar experiment to do together. You get a 10-page printable PDF for homeschool or classroom use. This is Pack 0 of From Forge to Factory, a kids' history of how things are made, from the bog to the 3D printer.

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