| Simulation Name: | Farming |
| Description: | Sharecropping, tenant farming, and homesteading during 1872-1874. |
| Simulation Type: | Role Playing |
| Details: | Farming is a 25 minute role playing simulation in which pairs of students act as a farm family, deciding which crops to plant and livestock to raise on their 160 acre farm for a three year period from 1872 to 1874. These student "farm families" have different economic arrangements with one third acting as homesteaders, one third as tenant farmers, and one third as sharecroppers. This simulation acquaints students with the basic economics of farming, the vagaries of farming "success," and the farmer's dependence on weather and national markets. The comparison of the relative success of homesteaders, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers in the simulation stimulates a class discussion of the social effects of these differing economic arrangements. |
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