Submitted work by Steven ONeal
Analyzing Objects
Porcelain
Musket Ball
Smallpox
Nail
Reaper
Shirtwaist
Transistor
Coffee
Record
Tire
Dishwasher
Dress
Stereograph
Stone
Shoe
Question 1:
usinging critical thinking skills along with past references to put together time lines and educational benefits stemming from previous events from the past.
Question 2:
Watching the change in objects through time allow us to place a particular refence to a period in history.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 17:03
Question 1:
The objects are made from steel and/or iron. Varying in size to make use in a variety of applications. They appear to be handmade and not from a mass fabrications system or machines.
Question 2:
These objects could possibly be used to show the expansion of the east to the west. The buildup of industry and residential housing as the U.S expanded to various territories.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 17:35
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These are tires. Most children and adults could identify them as such. However, a closer look shows these are not from a current period of time. They appear very thin and narrow. The inside is very large in comparison to some of our current vehicles on the road. Maybe a truck tire of some sort. An even closer look shows tubes that would have fit inside these tires. Again another example of a different place in time compared to today's cars and trucks on the road.
Question 2:
The connection would be from the size, shape, and tubes that are shown. It would take us to a place in time where the tire was still being perfected in today's world. From initial observations, it show s that these may have come from trucks of some sort. And in turn, we also know that today's tires are not legally able to be stored or thrown outside of a building in this manner. They must be destroyed or taken off to the appropriate centers at a cost to the tire manufacturer, tire replacement center, or individual themselves. This showing the era where recycling was not a priority.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 18:21
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A modern name to an older item. Appears to be a dehydrated or powdered item in a tin or metal container.
Question 2:
Broader themes may include times during the depression, possibly the war efforts, or possibly rations given to the general public.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 19:55
Question 1:
Large, heavy, seems to have been shaped into the cube shape either by nature or by man.
Question 2:
One of the building blocks of our past. Stone has been used for so many purposes to bring the past into the future.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:10
Question 1: Round in shape, handmade, approx size to fit into the musket.
Question 2:
Broader themes would include the Revolutionary War, the influx of immigrants from various other countries that had used then prior, and the push in the minds of the soldiers that now had a more immediate means of depleting the enemy in a time of war.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:39
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I would originally think that these are cells of some form. Something to do with Health and Science.
Question 2:
It would relate to history through the plagues, disease, common cold and flu, along with various other infectious issues that have ravaged our country since we inhabited it centuries ago. The American Indian did not know of disease or health issues till we landed.
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Submitted: Monday, August 30, 2021 - 10:56
Question 1:
Determining the happening of an event or piece of time of the past using context clues, texts, articles, or objects to help us understand the meaning of that piece of history.
Question 2:
Using how an object is made, what it is made of, the color, the size, all play a part of the place in time and history that tell us a story from the past and its historical relevance.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 17:11
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The mass produced nail enabled home prices to drop. Home designs to soar. It also allowed for all income classes to become able to purchase or build a dwelling of some sort.
Question 2:
The relationship falls between the slowly built housing and businesses with high costs and the mass-produced nail allowing faster, more cost efficient expansion. Thus allowing for the move to the westward plains.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 18:09
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So the tires took a different direction rolling through the module. Taking the ideas of the part they played in the war was extremely intriguing. The lack of rubber and the force or recommendation by the government to limit travel would be unheard of in this day and time.
Question 2:
Questions for my middle school sped classes would include:
Why did they show women more than men in the foreground of the posters?
What role do think women were playing in society during these times?
Research and ask questions about the colors and fonts used for attention in detail on the posters.
Why did they show women more than men in the foreground of the posters?
What role do think women were playing in society during these times?
Research and ask questions about the colors and fonts used for attention in detail on the posters.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 18:30
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Instant coffee would connect to broader themes by marrying the time in history of the shift from the women's roles in the household and shifting them to being able to quickly provide for the spouse in a quick and effecient manner.
Question 2:
The limitations concerning analyzing advertising were still in force through the presentation of the women in the posters. They still were very much represented as a household person first. They were not working toward the shift to the wife becoming a working and independent woman outside the household. They were showing the trend to shift and kept them handcuffed to the home.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:03
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At first glance nothing appeared specific. I have since seen that the cornerstone and the writing etched in the side brings new life to the picture. This stone connects our country in a variety of ways. To some this will be freedom to move forward as a nation, to others this will be a sign of the repression that has plagued our country for centuries now concerning slavery.
Question 2:
Other ways that students can explore boundaries is either through the rail system of the shipping routes between the Caribbean and Africa and the "New America"
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:26
Question 1:
The new themes that can be presented are inclusive of the rise and decommissioning of the Army after the War for Independence. Another theme can be the courage and devotion that a soldier in that time would have to obtain to stand close enough to their enemy so that they could fire the musket ball with any positive repercussions.
Question 2:
I would like to use the source of the townsfolk to see how they viewed the war and the soldiers and find their views on having to outfit and house the soldiers of that time.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:55
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Smallpox allowed one of the first events to show no racial or economic impact. It was a fair disease for all. It ravaged communities far and wide with no fear of who would be inflicted.
Question 2:
I believe the benefits would give us a view into history and show that disease has no boundary to who or when it will strike. The drawback could be the evidence that economic impact with the wealthy being able to sustain the disease due to the gain in opportunity to medicine and vaccinations continue even in today's societies across the globe.
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Submitted: Monday, August 30, 2021 - 11:10
Title: Special Education Instructor
Grade Level: Middle
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I enjoyed the piece on the unknown object and having the students review, study, and determine what the "unknown object" is and then the using that relevance to determine importance to society at the time it was made or used. This can be completed in a group setting to be able to teach collaborative work and share ideas and opinions throughout.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 17:13
Title: Hands on
Grade Level: Middle
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With the loss of hands on activities throughout the pandemic, I would like to see a return to being able to bring in outside sources such as nails collected at various locations, antique to today's "Lowe's" brands so that they could see, feel, touch, handle, and examine each in its unique body. We live in a very rural area, broken down barns and houses are not uncommon on their everyday trip to and from school. But to take some of the nails and have them explained on how they were produce and how they were used allows the students to understand what they are seeing is not just a broken down barn, but rather a right of passage from history from the very depths of joining two pieces of board together. Integrating research on 5 nails from varied places in time (one per day) would be a great start to our history class.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 18:15
Title: Virtual Class Trip
Grade Level: Middle
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We still can not take field trips as in years past due to the pandemic, so we shift to a virtual class trip to a tire manufacturing plant, an old fashioned automobile junk yard, and a rubber recycling center to understand the process of taking old tires and turning into usable items is completed. We then can go back in time to the war efforts in hopes of understanding that the lack of ability at the time for recycling and making synthetic rubber brought forth the war efforts in shortages, rations, and supplying the military as a first priority.
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Submitted: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 18:53
Title: TV Dinners -- When, Where, and Why?
Grade Level: Middle
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I would love to have students bring in items that are considered "instant" and to share with the class the origins of the product. My portion would be the study of the invention of the TV Dinner. Many children today do not know a time when this item was not a low cost staple in the freezer section of their local grocery store.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:06
Title: A slippery Slope in today's Classroom
Grade Level: Middle
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I would love to give my opinion on how to engage the students, but my concern is that this is all linked to slavery. I know many school systems that are moving away from the historical relevance of slavery due to recent events in our nation. I still think it is vital for students of all races to understand that our country, as great as it is, was not very humane in the treatment of a varied set of races that came voluntarily or by force. Students need to get a black and white research project gained directly and our historic relevance of the states that slavery was outlawed and the ones who worked feverishly to keep them in tact. No better way to teach it than to present the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:31
Title: Bullets!!! Ready, Aim, Fire!!!
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
A great opportunity for virtual views and tours of metalsmiths that still make the early bullets of our history. Taking time to view what went into the time and effort of these musket balls and lead into today's mass manufacturing efforts.
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Submitted: Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 20:58
Title: Powerpoint - Pox
Grade Level: Middle
Short Answer:
a small group assignment to develop a powerpoint of Google slide showing the history of the disease through various centuries. Each group to have their own to show and discuss. If possible (due to COVID regulations) have a local physician come and speak to the class about infectious disease throughout history as a guest speaker.
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Submitted: Monday, August 30, 2021 - 11:12