Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Worksheets, Primary SourceDate Posted: 1/22/2011
In this set of classroom activities developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including historical maps to answer questions about farming, transportation, immigration, and racism in the 1880s, and will answer questions about the history and impact of railroads on their own communities. The activities provide opportunities for historical analysis, interpretation, evaluation, analyzing cause/effect relationships, understanding multiple points of view, performing original research, debating and persuasive writing and help students develop and strengthen map-reading skills and the ability to identify issues and problems in the past and connect the past to the present.
Discussions, Museum education, Project-based learning, Questioning techniques, Self directed groups, Visual instruction
This 40-saw cotton gin and the wooden gearing came from a farm formerly owned by the Augustus C. ...
19th Century, civil rights, immigration, culture, travel, social history, migration, immigrant, innovation, 1800, movement, expansion, primary source, nineteenth century, technology, invention, vehicle, geography, American life, mechanics
A story of life on the prairie.
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