Interpreting the impact of change from workshop to factory on workers' lives, including the New Industrial Age from 1870 to 1900, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Pullman Strike, the Haymarket Square Riot, and the impact of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, A. Philip Randolph, and Thomas Alva Edison
Students will watch a short video clip about how children were affected by the Great Depression. They will compare and contrast their lives to the lives of children in the 1930s. Students will pay close attention to how children's lives changed at school, at home, and in the workforce due to the high poverty and economic failure of the times.
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In this activity, students will organize research about their assigned European Explorer (see Early European Explorers: Part One!). Students will use the guided research paper to direct their research into key topics and ideas about an Early European Explorer.
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In this activity, students will use their research materials to organize their information on a European ship. Each section of the ship is designed for different information on their Explorer. Ships can be displayed for students to learn from one another's research.
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In this activity, students will build background knowledge of the Early European Explorers and their motives for exploring the New World. Students will learn that Europeans were on the search for spices and trade with the East Indies, but found the Americas instead. Students will become familiar with different explorers and pick one to research more in-depth.
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The students will read an article explaining the Great Depression. Next, they will perform a skit about a family experiencing the effects of the Great Depression. Finally, they will examine pictures from this time period to learn more about Hoovervilles and how different they were from these families' original neighborhoods.
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Students will wrap up their lessons on the Great Depression by working in collaborative groups to write the gist of an article on this topic. The students will take a short quiz provided by ducksters.com. The quiz will include information from the article as well as information they have learned throughout the lessons about the Great Depression, the Stock Market, and the negative effects they had on the general population. The students will create a Google Slides presentation about what they have learned as a summative activity.
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This learning activity is an introduction to civics and government. The students will learn how rules and laws protect citizens in the local and state communities. The students will learn the responsibilities of citizens.
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This learning activity is an introduction to civics and government. The students complete a study guide to demonstrate their knowledge of being good citizens in the community and how the rules and laws made by the government protect citizens.
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This graphic organizer provides a structured method for students to analyze primary source visual image documents. By using this graphic organizer and the included guiding questions, students will analyze the source of the image, make observations about the image, contextualize the image within historical events, and corroborate the information they learn by identifying other sources of information.
