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The Gilded Age Industry (WebQuest).
This site guides students in creating their own
multimedia slide show centered on technology, big business,
immigration (and reaction) and urban issues.
Who Really Built America?
In this activity, students are immersed in
primary source materials that relate to child labor in America from
1880-1920. One purpose is to gain a personal perspective of how work
affected the American child within a rapidly growing industrial
society.
Social Darwinism: Reason or Rationalization?
Presented by Small Planet
Communications, this lesson plan encourages debate over the theory of
Social Darwinism. Students are also asked to write a short follow-up
essay on their position. Includes necessary material.
Striking a Deal: Learning the History of American Labor Strikes.
In
this lesson, students explore the economic repercussions of a
potential Major League Baseball strike. Then, through researching
other labor strikes in American history, students will consider the
importance and impact of labor unions in United States history.
Interpreting Primary Sources.
Digital History
provides brief excerpts from primary sources and statistics and also
questions to think about: changing status of women, farmer's revolt,
and responses to Industrialization.
The Gilded Age Industry (WebQuest).
This is a a student-produced
multimedia slide show centered on technology, big business,
immigration (and reaction) and urban issues.
United We Stand:
In this lesson, students, identify the issues
involved with the migration of a community or family into the state of
Nebraska. By examining the traditional picture of immigration,
students then turn the microscope onto their own families to have a
better idea of their own history and their own voices.
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Our Changing Voices:
This unit leads students to recognize cultural
elements through the analysis of photographs from American Memory.
Using thematic galleries of photographs, students develop questions
about the photos for further research into the region's history and
culture.
American Memory
Provided by the Library of Congress in this lesson students work
with primary source documents to study the working conditions of U.S.
laborers at the turn of the century. Student then answer the question,
"Was there a need for organized labor unions?"
Child Labor in America:
To gain a true understanding of child
labor, both as an historical and social issue, students should examine
the worlds of real working children. This unit asks students to
critically examine, respond to and report on photographs as historical
evidence.
Women's Suffrage
In this lesson students examine a variety of primary source documents related to the
women's suffrage movement. They identify different methods people used
to influence and change attitudes and beliefs about suffrage for
women. Students then create original documents encouraging citizens to
vote in current elections.
Down the Rabbit Hole:
Using passages from Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, along with various history texts, class discussions of
students' experiences, and primary source documents and images from
the American Memory collections, students uncover the common themes of
the immigrant experience.
Around the World in 1896:
Working in groups, students plan, take,
and document a trip around the world in 1896 using "From around the
World in 1890s photographs from the World Transportation Commission,
1894-1896.
Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less:
The Suffrage Movement from 1840-1920:
In
this lesson, students are introduced to how the
modern woman's suffrage movement began and major events in the
movement.
From Jim Crow To Linda Brown: A
Retrospective of the African-American Experience from 1897 to 1953:
In
addition to other objectives in this lesson, students will
evaluate primary sources and create a
presentation reflective of the African American experience.
Stand Up And Sing: Music And Our Reform History:
By exploring sheet music, students analyze issues related to
industrialization and reform to answer the essential question, "How
does society respond to change?" Students will have the opportunity to
create original lyrics and song covers that reflect the Progressive
Era.
Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made
Bright:
The lesson could be used in
units on American social history between 1865 and 1919, particularly
the widespread efforts of reform. Students will better understand the
role of philanthropy in U.S. history and the place of libraries in
American culture.
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Train Town:
Railroads both influenced and reflected American settlement and
development from the 1830s to the 1950s. This lesson examines
how geography influenced the placement of rail lines in one particular
city, Chattanooga.
The Frankish Building:
A Reflection of the Success
of Ontario, California:
In this lesson, students analyze how this local landmark came to
symbolize the commercial prosperity of a western town in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's
Laboratories:
Tour Edison's West
Orange complex where his creative combination of research, production,
and marketing revolutionized the business of invention.
The Strike for Three Loaves:
This lesson teaches about the plight of
European immigrants in the U.S. in the early 1900s and the part they
played in the labor movement.
Child Labor in America.
Using historic
photographs and primary sources, students will research and learn
about child labor in America. The plan provides its own printable
handouts and discussion questions.
Child Labor in the United States:
This lesson plan
(from the American Social History Project) allows students to study
child labor. The lesson plan offers many photographs and primary
sources.
Course Models: Social Reformers - Women's Voices.
Part of the
California History-Social Science content standards and annotated
course which include: background information, focus questions, pupil
activities and handouts, assessment, and references to books,
articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and historic
site.
Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early
Asian Immigrants in California:
In this lesson, students will understand
the experience of early Asian immigrants and the obstacles they
encountered as they struggled to make a living and find a place in
American society.
Wright Brothers National Memorial: Site of
the First Controlled Powered Flight:
Discover why the Wright Brothers
chose the Outer Banks of North Carolina to conduct their flight
experiments, how they achieved controlled powered flight in 1903, and
how their accomplishments have been commemorated.
An Era of Innovation:
Discovery provides a great lesson that allows
students to research significant transportation milestones during the
past century; determine the impact of these milestones on society, the
economy, communication, travel, and their lives; and design and
present "decade in transportation" exhibits.
The Model T Road Trip:
In this lesson, students conduct
oral history interviews to collect, interpret and present
reminiscences about the impact of the automobile on American life.
The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's
Laboratories:
Tour Edison's West
Orange complex where his creative combination of research, production,
and marketing revolutionized the business of invention.
The Life of George Westinghouse:
In this mini-lesson students learn
about one of our nation's business pioneers. Specifically, students
learn when in his life achievements were made, What were his special
characteristics, and what lessons can we learn from his life and
achievements? This site also provides additional links and a quiz.
The four (4) lessons below are from the
Library of Congress
lesson plan collection. The unit is entitled
Thank You, Mr. Edison: Electricity, Innovation, and Social Change.
All or some of the lessons below may be incorporated into this
standard:
Lesson 1: The Impact of Electricity On
People's Lives:
In this
mini-lesson, students assess the impact of electricity on the lives of
people.
Lesson 2:Edison's Role in the Electrification of America:
Edison's Role in the Electrification of America:
In this mini-lesson, students analyze the role of Thomas Edison in the
electrification of America and demonstrate an understanding of
electrification as both a technological and social process.
Lesson 3: Merchandising and Advertising:
In this mini-lesson, students analyze advertising and assess its
significance as it relates to electrification and consumption. They
also develop an understanding of the emergence of the mass-consumer
economy.
Lesson 4: Women and the Mass Consumer Society:
In this mini-lesson, students assess the impact of electricity on the
lives of people, considering such factors as class and gender.
Who Really Built America?
In this activity, students are immersed in
primary source materials that relate to child labor in America from
1880-1920. One purpose is to gain a personal perspective of how work
affected the American child within a rapidly growing industrial
society.
Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less:
The Suffrage Movement from 1840-1920:
In
this lesson, students are introduced to how the
modern woman's suffrage movement began and major events in the
movement.
From Jim Crow To Linda Brown: A
Retrospective of the African-American Experience from 1897 to 1953:
In
addition to other objectives in this lesson, students will
evaluate primary sources and create a
presentation reflective of the African American experience.
Voices for Votes -- Suffrage Strategies:
Students examine a variety of
primary source documents related to the women's suffrage movement.
They identify different methods people used to influence and change
attitudes and beliefs about suffrage for women. Students then create
original documents encouraging citizens to vote in current elections.
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations
Changed?:
This lesson by the National Endowment for the Humanities
explores how patriotism of African American soldiers was
not recognized or rewarded by white military commanders -- or other
American citizens -- as they deserved.
The Ku Klux Klan:
In this lesson, students will better understand the
history of discrimination through facts about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Specifically, students will make analogies between modern
discrimination and historical discrimination, interpret first hand
accounts from varying sources about the Klan's reign of terror, and
become aware that the Klan's activity lessened by the end of the
century, but is still a looming force in present times.
Living Without Technology.
Presented by PBS, this
lesson plan introduces a project that allows students to experience
the difficulties of the Great Depression. Students are instructed to
live 24 hours without many of today's modern comforts.
Lynching in Duluth: 1920:
By reading and analyzing a compelling book,
The Lynchings in Duluth, and by researching related topics, students
will learn about the historical context of the incident and its
impact on Minnesota and the nation. Finally, they will investigate
their own roles in resisting racism. The lesson plan includes the
links to be used, but not the book that this is based on.
Geographic Diffusion of Disease: The Flu Pandemic of 1918-19:
This
lesson from National Geographic will focus on the spatial diffusion of
the influenza (flu) pandemic of 1918-19. Spatial diffusion is the
geographic spread of ideas, innovations, or phenomena (such as
disease).
Learning About Immigration Through Oral
History:
In this lesson from the
Library of Congress, students demonstrate the techniques of recording
oral history and discern how point of view influences and effects
historical understanding. Also, students learn about the experiences
of some modern immigrants in East Central Illinois, as well as
evaluate selected experiences of modern and early immigrant
experiences.
Doing the Decades: Group Investigations in Twentieth Century
U. S. History:
In this lesson,
students demonstrate understanding of patterns of change and
continuity in the history of the United States and identify unique
qualities of different types of primary sources. In addition, students
interpret, analyze, and evaluate primary and secondary sources related
to core historical themes and topics.
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