Grade 3 with Mrs. Nelson

                                 

Mills

Lesson 1: Water and Windmills

• History of Windmills -post and smock mills

• Mills and Water Power

• Post Mills

• The Basic Elements of a Mill That Makes a Mill Look Like a Mill

• Types of Windmills

• Vertical Watermills

Lesson 2: Mill Names, Millers, and Millwrights

• A Miller's Tale

• Millwright History

• So You Want to Be a Miller

• The Miller's Wife

Lesson 3: Gristmills

• British Millstones

• How a Gristmill Grinds the Grain

• Millstones

• Millstone Dressing Tools

• Millstones, Their Care and Keeping -millstone animation

• The Art of Millstones, How They Work

• The History of Flour Milling in Early America

• The Seasons in a Grist Miller's Life

Lesson 4: Cape Cod Gristmills

• Historical Yarmouth Mills

• The Baxter Grist Mill

• The Judah Baker Windmill

• The Farris Windmill

Lesson 5: Salt-making Mills

• Mid-Cape History

• Sleepy John Sears of Dennis

• The Development of American Chemistry

• The Saltworks

Lesson 6 Cape Cod Mills Today

• Cape Wind

• Dexter Mill

• Water Mills of Cape Cod

• Windmills of Cape Cod

Miscellaneous Mill Links

• From Windmills to Whirligigs

• History of Windmills

• Rodent Control; The Value of a Good Mill Cat

• Make a Model of a Windmill

• Mill Speak Sayings From the Mill

• Windmills and How They Work

• Wind in a Minute