Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Worksheets, Primary SourceDate Posted: 1/22/2011
In these classroom activities, developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including a historical map and answer questions about them to learn more about the expansion of transportation systems and the impact on their own communities, city planning, the rise of suburban life, and culture in 1950s America. 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, identify issues and problems in the past and connect the past to the present.
Discussions, Museum education, Questioning techniques, Self directed groups, Visual instruction
In the 1950s, the station wagon became a staple of America's new suburban landscape and a ubiquit...
expansion, culture, mechanics, transformation, environment, social history, technology, lifestyle, American life, innovation, 20th century, America on the Move, modernization, vehicle, travel, change, twentieth century, invention, geography, movement