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- 6th - 12th
Students study the furniture made in the 1600s and 1700s for wealthy Parisians and the King of France. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students create a journal that includes historic events that occurred in Illinois in the 1700's that features entries on the same topics from different perspectives. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students explain the principles of different forms of governing. They compare the basic ideas of absolutism and democracy and explore the historical struggle for democracy in England from the 1200s to 1700s. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine acrostic poetry in history, particularly primary source material in the form of newspaper clippings from the 1700's, where readers wrote acrostic poems praising their president, George Washington. They write a poem about a past figure. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students research how early colonists lived. They investigate late 17th century colonist's lives from Massachusetts and Delaware. Using their research, students write historical fiction in the form of friendly letters between the two colonies. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students assume the role of an entrepreneur during the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s in Great Britain. They investigate how changing methods of production affected the way that the fundamental economic questions were being answered at that time. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students discuss what Historians do. They brainstorm a list of questions they could ask to learn about farms in the 1700s. They visit the Spencer-Peirce-Little-Farm and answer the list of questions they have prepared. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore daily life and its influences in the late 1700s for two families in different colonies- Delaware and Massachusetts by becoming historical detectives. After gathering information from artifacts to make inferences about the lives and times they represent, students write historical fiction in the form of letters. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use an image of a painting in order to conduct research about the shipping industry of the late 1700s. They answer specific questions that are written in order to provide research guidance. The lesson includes a section of background information for the teacher to use. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students apply their knowledge of North American history from the mid 1600's through the mid 1700's to a role-playing scenario. In small groups they plan, write, and perform a dramatic skit of a group that was affected by events in North America. Full Review »
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