Tour the Museum of Childhood in London to find out how different your own childhood was from children in the Edwardian era, beginning in the early 1900s. Themes to explore include nursery rhymes, food, clothes, school, child labor, parlor games, and death. Contrast that era?s childhood with East End (London) immigrant children?s lives regarding festivals, discrimination, and toys.
Explore a gallery of photographs of Grand Central, which depict the station from the simple steam engine depot to the grand Beaux Arts monument that opened in 1913 and stands today. Select one picture and write a fictional story to accompany it.
Can a song change the world? This high school curriculum uses the music of folk music visionaries, particularly Bob Dylan, to explore how music helped enact social change in the turbulent 1960s and beyond. This social studies curriculum, with unique perspectives on trade unions, the Red Scare and the civil rights movement, may also be useful to teachers of language arts and music.
Analyze the influence of paintings and photographs upon public attitudes towards western lands and the native populations. Evaluate images as historical documents, and explore the charge that some artists distorted the images to influence the public.
Explore gender divisions in the U.S. in general and as they are reflected in blues music. Understand how blues women were both limited by and defiant of the gender expectations under which they lived.
Explore the relationship between real-life events and popular music, focusing on a song written during the U.S.-Mexican War. Rewrite the song from a new perspective.