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Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons
3D2 by Shelley

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Presidential Cartoons from 1860-1912. Used to compare the hidden meanings in the cartoons. I have many “real” pictures of presidents, so I think it would be neat to compare the cartoons to the other pictures. Use this to introduce the SEA form to kids. They love cartoons so it will be a great “hook” for them. I will also talk about how to use the SEA to analyze other primary sources.

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The making of America digital library of primary sources. Search many different types of primary sources. Just put whatever topic you are looking for in and the information is right there for you. It is by the University of Michigan.

@http://www.cdc.gov/ Center for Disease Control: I would use this to look up the history of disease in Maryland and the vicinity. We could look at the data of air pollution in Maryland. Would the data show that Maryland air is better now or then? Why might that be? What other factors can we look at to determine the answer?

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This website is awesome! It has data about many different topics specific to Maryland. I would use the data to show the recycling percentages in Maryland. Even though it doesn’t relate directly to local history, it will be important to talk about what is different about the past and the present and how things have changed. It would be interesting to take a survey before the local history project and ask the kids whether they would rather live in the past or 2011. Then after we learn all about the local history, give the survey again and see if the perspective has changed for any of the students.

[] This website has census information for each state. When you put the state in it also has many other ways to show the data. I would need to use this data to talk about the Maryland facts in 2011. It will be helpful for the students to see how the numbers have changed since the 1900’s. This will be effective because many of the students are still learning number sense and seeing this data will help them to understand.

===Greenbelt, Maryland history. Used to compare the past with the present. This website has pictures as far back as 1937. Greenbelt was one of the first cities to be designed as a whole community with schools, businesses and housing availability. We will use this website to learn about why this community was formed this way. ===

===Photographs by time period. You can search for specific topics. I would use the pictures of transportation to connect the past and the present. We will do a time line of ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website can be used to compare pictures of different modes of transportation. This website has many unusual pictures of transportation from the past. Including camels, push carts and horses. ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website has daguerreotype portraits of many famous people. I would compare them to the pictures of today. We will discuss how the photographs have changed and evolved over the years. ===

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Many panoramic photos can be used to tell about a time period. Click on transportation to see the tractor show picture. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This panoramic photo can be used with aNARAchart to discuss what we notice about the picture. The picture is of a tractor show in 1916.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Sheet music:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Look up Rose of Maryland Sheet music on american memory::

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Rose of Maryland Sheet Music. Lovely cover design and connection to local area. What does the coloring of the sheet music tell you? Can you read the sheet music? Who might be able to? Our music teacher. I would see if she could come and tell us more about the sheet music.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">American Memory Sheet Music for Maryland search. Compare the sheet music of the Rose of Maryland and The Two Roses. Look at how intricate the one is to the other. Also the amount of advertising in the sheet music. The students can also talk about what that tells us about Maryland history. Also use the Maryland Regiment March to compare to the design on the other sheet music. Who was the sheet music written for? How do we know? How does that tell us about Maryland at that time?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Good Bye Liza Jane, by Eddie Fox, 1871. Words with the music, what does that tell about this time? What is different between the sheet music with and without words? This is also a comic song, and the students will tell why it is labeled comic.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">History and politics out loud. Search for many different audio recordings from different times in history.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">This song is a great way to enlighten students to the spirit of the time. It also emphasizes the importance of music as part of the Freedom Riders movement. This can tell us about how hostile it was for the African Americans in this country at that time. As with our MLK unit, we can talk about how the focus for the activists was to be achieved peacefully. The <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">We will overcome. From the march on Washington. What does this tell us about the Civil Rights Movement and the March on Washington?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Music from the Civil Rights Movement. You can search through many audio recordings from this time in history.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table. Talking about how someday he wants to be able to sit at the “whites” table. It’s a hopeful and sorrowful song all at the same time.

Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps
6D1 local history resources

Videos

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Video of co ed school in 1914

The attire and tone of the silent video. Notice the men and women standing separately and walking only with the same sex. What does this tell us about that time in history? Were men and women treated equally? Why or why not?

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Video of school letting out 190?

The attire and tone of the silent video

The discussion continues about equality.

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Hyde Park School classroom performance 1904 exercise and movement

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High School Physical Education. 1904, exercise and movement

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Kindergarten kids bouncing balls 1904, movement activities for kids

Attire and activities, writing on board

Maps:

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This map resource has many different maps from the beginning of map making. You can find many maps according to region. You search the links for maps that you are looking for. I found 2 maps right away of Maryland in 1830 and 1862. Many more maps to be found.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">*all around great websites for many kinds of primary resources, related to Maryland History.

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