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Students bring in a toy, favorite or otherwise. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the evolution of toys and explore how the toy industry has adapted their products in response to advances in technology and changing customer expectations. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students distinguish between immediate and long-term goals. They follow directions for creating handmade toys and propose and defend their own ideas contributing to world peace. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Studentsexplore how gravity affects the operation of toys and simple machines. They watch a video and experiment with simple machines. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify some interesting facts about favorite toys from the past century and explore toy selection and safety. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students reflect on their favorite childhood toys and assess their continued appeal. They work in pairs to redesign classic toys and create posters to represent their new models. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students examine newspaper advertisements of Christmas toys from 1897 to 1922 and complete a Venn diagram comparing the toys to contemporary ones. They chose one ad to use as a resource as they role play as a child writing a letter to Santa requesting the toy. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students experiment with a variety of simple toys (Slinky, paddleball, marbles, a gyroscope, etc.) and record their findings of how each moves and is affected by various forces like air, friction, etc. Then they find out how each toy performed in space. They compare the toys' performances in the two different locations. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students consider toys as more than items for playing, compare and contrast inventors and toys they created, and discuss purpose of specific toys, including whether toy was created for education, financial success, or both. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students, while visiting The History Center, brainstorm and discuss similarities and differences in pioneer toys and games to modern-day toys and games. After many examples and research, they create corn husk, rag or yarn dolls. Full Review »