Analyzing Objects

Porcelain

Musket Ball

Smallpox

Nail

Reaper

Shirtwaist

Transistor

Coffee

Record

Tire

Dishwasher

Dress

Stereograph

Stone

Mail

Shoe

Question 1:
Historical thinking is when you investigate something from the past to find out when it was created, why it was created, and under what circumstances it was created.
Question 2:
Objects and primary sources can lead to investigations of time periods, as well as opening discussion into how our ancestors lived.
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I notice that the objects look old, they are rusty, some are bent, they have different sizes, and they look like nails.
Question 2: These objects might connect to the Industrial Revolution or even Reconstruction.
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There are a lot of tires dumped in front of a building. The tires are thin, so they must be from older automobiles.
Question 2:
Maybe it is a picture related to waste or the contamination of our environment. It could be a how tires were re-purposed for war.
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The object looks mechanical in nature and it looks like it is an attachment piece. The name "Reaper" seems like Cyrus McCormick's invention to harvest fields.
Question 2:
I think this invention made harvesting easier and allowed for children to leave the field and get an education. It also helped lower the amount of slaves needed.
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Theses shoes look old and used. The soles are worn and stitched. The strings do not have the pieces at the ends which make it easier to lace. They are leather boots.
Question 2:
These could be from the Great Depression or a cattle drive through the Great Pains.
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Question 1:
This is a small amount of coffee that is probably part f a soldiers ration kit during WWI or WWII. The Nestles company is still in business.
Question 2:
This could be from WWII to help keep soldiers alert and prepared to fight all night long. This could also have been part of the Cold War era preparing life in a bomb shelter.
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It is a record and the song is "Young America" by Nora Bayes. It must be popular to be number 70015.
Question 2:
The name "Young America" may tell us a story about patriotism to join the service, or how to be a good citizen.
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The object is a coffee cup with gold leaf and very fancy. It is made of porcelain and looks like it comes in a set. Maybe it is part of a mass assembly for the Industrial Revolution.
Question 2:
Maybe it is from Antebellum when the South wanted to show off its wealth or from the Industrial Revolution showing mass production.
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The objects look like alien spaceships like in "The War of the Worlds." They also look huge in the picture.
Question 2:
These objects may connect to radio transitions in WWII or the "Space Race" of the Cold War.
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Question 1: It looks like a small, wet rock. Maybe it was a musket ball.
Question 2: Maybe it replaced the bow and arrow with more accuracy and a longer range.
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Question 1: The object is oblong, dark in color, and looks like a cell dividing.
Question 2:
This object may have a reason the American Indians were dying when the Europeans came to the new world.
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The object looks like a shirt with a belt around the waist. It is white with pinstripes and looks like a ladies garment.
Question 2:
There has been a fire at the Triangle Company that changed the labor codes in factories around America.
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Question 1: It looks like a dishwasher. It has racks and is close to the sink.
Question 2:
The dishwasher save women time allowing them to leave the house and become a part of the workforce. Which came in handy during WWII.
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Question 1:
It looks like a letter sent from the auditor's office to E.E. Alexander who was a lawyer from South Carolina. The post mark is from the C.S.A. post office in Richmond, VA and postage was free to this auditor's office.
Question 2:
This looks like an official letter from the capital of the C.S.A to Pickens Court House in South Carolina. Since auditors collect money and keep financial records, I would think it is requesting money from E.E. Alexander.
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Question 1: The object looks like the first attempt at movies like a view finder.
Question 2:
The object is probable from the early 1900's before movies and documented our history in photos.
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The dress s white, very long, and reminds me of the pictures of the women's rights movement.
Question 2:
I believe the picture is showing women of the 1900's who fought for their rights.
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Question 1:
The object looks like a tombstone. It is rectangular in shape and has a crack on it like it is missing a top.
Question 2:
The object could mark the grave of someone, it could be a slave auction block marker, or it could be a boundary marker.
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Question 1: I like the answer I have given.
Question 2: I like the answer I have given.
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Question 1:
The mass-produced nail connects to broader themes in 19th century history relating to American expansion, the Westward Movement, Industrialization, and pre-fabrication. The nail played an important role in American advancement and how we live today.
Question 2:
I am familiar with the colonial want to move west and the Proclamation of 1763 not allowing them after the French and Indian war. Then moving across the Appalachians after we gained independence. I suppose the need for nails allowed Americans to quickly expand the nation and served us well in the protection of our flanks too.
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The tire connect to the broader themes of the 20th-century by linking the precious resources needed to win the war with how Americans sacrificed to make victory in WWII possible.
Question 2:
How could these tires save the free world? Why was this a precious site to Americans during WWII?
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I think it connects to how we changed from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
Question 2:
American lives changed dramatically because of this invention and other inventions like the cotton gin. Not only did it shift our populations from rural to urban, but divided the nation and allowed for a northern victory during the Civil War. It also increase our the number of skilled workers in America beneficial to our quick industrial transition in WWII.
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These shoes from the Civil War fit a broader theme because of the importance of having enough for the soldiers. The federal government changed because of the supply needs of the soldiers and it gained more power as a result.
Question 2:
Maybe we could show a railroad spike or a telegraph transmitter and relate the same message to the students.
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The instant coffee connected to the need to feed the soldiers of WWII, the way consumers bought goods after the war, and how advertisers targeted people to sell their product. Which changed the way Americans bought food and the role of women.
Question 2:
The limitations are the reluctance to change, public perception, and what the basic needs of the day.
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The song is a matter of immigration and assimilation into a culture. It helps us understand the challenged faced when immigrants come to America and how we have limited our population.
Question 2:
Immigration papers, citizenship tests, and medical examination records from Ellis Island can show how our immigration system worked.
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This tea cup is a symbol of the need for American Revolution and serves as a reminder that taxation without representation is tyranny.
Question 2:
I teach this unit and I have made extensive research into the matter. I would like to know why the king would not redress the petitions of the colonists?
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Transistors connect to our 20th century history allowing us to move forward in communication. It has made a big world very small.
Question 2: What will the future hold for this invention. How could it shape our future?
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The musket ball shows necessity is the mother of all inventions, the founding fathers were right to worry about the expense of a standing army, and war tactics are continuously evolving.
Question 2:
I think we could investigate the Kentucky long rifle at a museum, or research the War Hawks of the early 1800's.
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Smallpox changed the course of the Revolutionary War. The United State could have had Canada.
Question 2:
The benefits is that we have learned to control the disease and even tried to use it to our advantage by giving diseased blankets to the Native Americans. A drawback is that we lost many people to the disease,
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The shirtwaist connection led to progressive reform and the rise in unions. This created a change in labor throughout the USA.
Question 2:
Corruption in unions leading to the way the mafia controlled made millions of dollars.
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The dishwasher allowed for less time in the kitchen and brought a new workforce. It also signified the technology of the USA during the cold war.
Question 2:
The resources helped me take a look into the cold war as a more posturing view to maintain stability in the world. The MAD (Mutually Agreed Destruction) thought on war with Russia proved beneficial to the entire world.
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Question 1:
The letter in question relates to our Civil War and how divisions on Northern and Southern morality led to a fight in our own country,
Question 2:
Yes, I have learned a couple of new thoughts on the separation of our country before the Civil War.
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The stereoscope related to history in that it brought events into the home that average Americans did not know. It made the world a little smaller.
Question 2: Students could research other equipment like view finders to discover the world.
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The dress connects to history in the color, purpose, and symbolism of women's suffrage and equality in the world.
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I would like to examine the Seneca Falls Convention, the people who opposed suffrage, and how the world viewed women in the early 1900's.
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The boundary stone connects to history and the division of the United Stated over issues like slavery and commerce.
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I think they could watch "How The States Got Their Shapes" and learn how American borders have changed and why they have changed.
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Title: How I Would Engage Students in Historical Thinking
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
How I would engage students in historical thinking is to present objects that are primary or secondary that could relate to the learning process I hope to relate to the students. For example, I could use a an M&M cookie with a variety of colors to simulate how to do an archaeological dig where the students can create a grid, dig out artifacts, clean and label their findings, and learn about how the older object is found in the lower layers of the simulated Earth and how we investigate the objects size and purpose. Then I can move forward and bring in other objects to investigate since my basis has been established.
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Title: Nailed It! Now Go West.
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I could use an object like a tiny schooner wagon and have the students investigate and historically think about it's use and how important it was to America during out Westward movement. The strategies are pretty much the same, but the object is different. his could open discussions of other topics like protection, the conditions and provisions needed to fill the wagon, and what it was like on the wagon trails.
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Title: Is it junk or trasure?
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
We like to say "One man's junk is another man's treasure." Having learned through this module, I believe this to be even more true. So why throw away anything? Students could learn the value of being economically smart and ration supplies through activities like the WWII rationing program. They could also learn that re-purposing products allows us to save materials and money which will benefit us in the long run. Keep everything and leave nothing behind!
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Title: Inventions Shaped America
Grade Level: Middle
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I would post pictures around the room of inventions that changed America like the cotton gin, barbed wire, the Reaper, and the steel plow and have the students research what they were and how the helped America settle the "Treeless Wasteland" our west was known to be. Then they could expand to how they shaped nation and brought us to fight each each other.
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Title: Building A Stronger Federal Government One Shoe At A Time
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I could have the students become entrepreneurs and have to find a way to supply the government troops, get recruited, or collect taxes. I could relate this to a stronger Federal government, or how the government became more involved in the people's lives.
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Title: Instant Satisfaction
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I could create a lesson to try instant food or MRE's and and develop an investigation into the reason they were made and the need for producers. Also, what to do with a surplus of goods relating the lesson to economics and a change in society.
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Title: Citizenship
Grade Level: Middle
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I would like the students to take an actual citizenship test, but not for America. I would like to make up my own nation with it's own language and customs when dealing with race majorities and norms. Then relate the process of becoming a citizen and the challenges face by immigrants.
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Title: Strict Control
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I could teach a lesson applying taxes to everyday items like the use of the pencil sharpener, renting pencils, restroom passes, and other supplies to show how the King can be unfair and how representation in necessary in a democracy.
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Title: Inventors Needed To Sculpt Our Future!
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I could relate the transistor was an invention that is the backbone of our society today. Then we could investigate other life changing inventions like barbed wire, the cotton gin, steel plow and how we improved on those in our modern day society. Then I could assign the students to create their own invention and try to patent it (probably only in class).
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Title: The Small Things Matter
Grade Level: Middle
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I can engage the students by finding small things that lead to big issues. The musket ball led to changes in rifling and how the military drilled. We could focus on a small classroom issue that leads to a bigger issue, then find solutions.
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Title: Smallpox Slows Westward Expansion
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I could have the students play the Oregon Trail game that shows how hard it is to move west where they get dysentery and smallpox.
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Title: Labor Lawless
Grade Level: Middle
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I could have my students organize and try to persuade me to change issues affecting them in the classroom. Especially if I took away there restroom passes, and right to get out of their seat for any reason.
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Title: Future World
Grade Level: Middle
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I remember going to Disney World in the early 1970's and seeing the "Future World" where it tried to show what the world would be like in the 2000's. I would like the students to create the world of the 3000's and how new appliances and technologies may end world wars forever.
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Title: Did you know?
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I would like to set out a set of 5 primary sources like the letter in the lesson and have the students investigate how they were viewed in the 1800's and how they led to division in the United States.
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Title: History In Pictures
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
Students can make their own stereoscope and draw their own pictures of events to tell a story in report form. It would be like a WWI service member telling their story door to door as they sell their product.
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Title: Dress For Success
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
I would like to have the students dress up for the job they would like to have in the future and what its employee would wear on a daily basis. Then we could explore people who hold that job currently and maybe Skype with them.
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Title: Surveyor's Day
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
Investigate how surveying was completed in America during its development and then try to measure and survey the boundaries of the school.
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