Submitted work by Mike Baker
Analyzing Objects
Porcelain
Musket Ball
Smallpox
Nail
Reaper
Shirtwaist
Transistor
Coffee
Record
Tire
Dishwasher
Dress
Stereograph
Stone
Shoe
Question 1: Techniques used by students studying history to analyze past events
Question 2:
To trigger student thinking and responses even before other materials are introduced
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Submitted: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 10:06
Question 1:
The objects probably are all used for similar tasks but all are noticeably different
Question 2:
Clearly these object are iron nails and relate to European settlement of the New World
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Submitted: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 15:34
Question 1: This object is a piece of agricultural equipment called the mechanical reaper
Question 2:
The reaper is associated with opening the Great Plains to large scale agriculture and supporting westward movement
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Submitted: Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 18:49
Question 1: Old worn pair of shoes-we'd have thrown these away already today!
Question 2:
Although these are not modern shoes they still appear to be machine made and mass produced
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Submitted: Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 19:03
Question 1:
Old piece of "worked" stone appears to be a grave marker of some importance was it is within a fence
Question 2: Possibly relates to burial practices
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Submitted: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 12:33
Question 1: It is an envelope with CSA postage and markings
Question 2: Obviously connected to Civil War
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:35
Question 1: This object appears to be a machine made women's blouse
Question 2: Seems to play into the textile industry's role in the Industrial Revolution
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:41
Question 1: It is a pile of semi modern pnuematic tires
Question 2: Industrialization in the auto industry and mass production
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:51
Question 1: Appears to be an old instant coffee containers
Question 2: Mass production of goods-caffeine fueled industrial productivity.
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Submitted: Friday, July 23, 2021 - 11:47
Question 1: Using sources to gain a more complete understanding of past events
Question 2: To encourage more in depth thought before reaching conclusions
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Submitted: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 10:18
Question 1:
Industrial revolution made products such as this readily available and probably much less expensive to produce.
Question 2:
Westward expansion after 1800 was dependent upon technology to move people and goods and open the prairie to large scale agriculture (barbed wire, steel plow and mechanical reaper) played more illustrious roles than the machine cut nail.
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Submitted: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 15:38
Question 1: Reaper supported large scale agriculture which is a precursor to urbanization
Question 2: Medical data collected showing life span and overall health improving
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Submitted: Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 18:56
Question 1: Pre industrial to industrialized society is reflected in these shoes
Question 2:
What source primary docs to show that many people associated themselves with a region or state as opposed to the Federal Government
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Submitted: Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 19:07
Question 1:
Differing customs had long separated the American states even before the turn of the 19th century. Examples include regional economics and religious customs.
Question 2:
Students can explore boundaries that are both physical and non physical. A physical boundary example would be a river or mountain range
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Submitted: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 12:35
Question 1:
The US Postal Service is a function of the Federal Government. The power of the central government versus the power of the states has always been a debating factor in US history.
Question 2:
So much discussion on the power of the central government in the story of the Civil War. The role of the US postal service was never something that even occured to me in the civil war story.
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:38
Question 1:
Shirtwaist is the history of urbanization and industrialization. It is the story of immigrant labor in terrible conditions and the efforts to improve workplace safety and overall working conditions.
Question 2:
Why were the unions unable at first to change conditions?
Why were the owners of the factory acquitted?
What immediately changed after the fire?
What changes were made in the longterm?
Why were the owners of the factory acquitted?
What immediately changed after the fire?
What changes were made in the longterm?
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:48
Question 1: Tires represent the explosion of auto production in the US
Question 2:
1. What impact did rationing have on regular people on the homefront?
2. How much did rationing actually help the war effort or was rationing simply a morale booster to make people think they were helping
2. How much did rationing actually help the war effort or was rationing simply a morale booster to make people think they were helping
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:56
Question 1:
Nescafe is a good illustrative example of industrial food technology, the war effort and the impact of changing societal roles of the post war "baby boom."
Question 2:
One limitation is the difference between reality and marketing. Marketing is the process of trying to "sell" something that is not 100% a reality. It is also not entirely possible to understand the effects of pressure put on a homemaker by her own mother or spouse.
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Submitted: Friday, July 23, 2021 - 11:59
Title: Early Jamestown
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
Primary source documents pre-dating the arrival of Englishmen in Jamestown
Primary source documents and objects relating to Jamestown after English settlement
Primary source documents and objects relating to Jamestown after English settlement
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Submitted: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 10:22
Title: 19th Century Housing in Relation to Westward Expansion
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
Compare building techniques and technology of pre 19th century America to 20th Century to 21st century. Invite a building contractor to to share experiences with class.
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Submitted: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 15:40
Title: Evolution of Agricultural Tech
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
My students live in a rural area where agriculture is the primary source of economic survival. There is a museum dedicated to centuries of agricultural techniques and equipment. Students will compare 19th century machines to 20th-21st century equipment.
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Submitted: Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 18:59
Title: Production of Shoes in US History
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
Student would research city tax data to find that nearly every city of any size had a tanner producing leather and multiple shoemakers. Handmade shoes were less expensize and more readily available than we are today led to believe due to competition among local cobblers
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Submitted: Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 19:10
Title: American Boundary Markers Relating to Pre Civil War Sectionalism
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
Class would research and discuss how the history and evolution of regionalism or sectionalism in the pre Civil War period and how these differences were a major cause of the US Civil War
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Submitted: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 12:37
Title: Outreach of Central Government - Federalism
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
I would use this content for a debate on the nature of Federalism and power sharing in US goverment.
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:40
Title: Urbanization and Industrialization
Grade Level: High
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Students would research the country of origin that most represented the immigrant labor force in the NYC textile industry>
Students would discover what housing was like for the workers and their families.
Students would discover what housing was like for the workers and their families.
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:50
Title: WWII Homefront
Grade Level: High
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We would look at our own modern daily or weekly consumption of goods and compare to the usage and rationing of the same goods during the war.
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Submitted: Saturday, July 17, 2021 - 15:57
Title: The Role of Instant Coffee in Changing Instant Food Technology
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
I would find a 1940's style coffee pot or urn and have a timed experiment against boiling water and adding instant coffee. A taste test would also be part of this experiment. Students would also be exposed to the amount of time that an average homemaker puts into household chores,
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Submitted: Friday, July 23, 2021 - 12:02