History of Toys and Games

In this world history worksheet, students research information about Victorian toys and game. They collect pictures of Victorian toys, and compare the amount of fun Victorian children had with that of contemporary children.

Students use primary sources to analyze advertisements, prices, and styles of Lincoln Logs from Carson Pirie Scott catalogs from 1952 to 1960. Students then compare modern-day toy to Lincoln Logs of the 1950s by analyzing differences in...

Students examine the different types of toys created for children in Ancient Egypt. They create a hippo toy made out of tongue depressors.

Investigate the 50 State Quarter's Program. Learners view and discuss the images on the Indiana state quarter, develop a list of questions about the states, conduct research to answer the questions, and play a game using the questions...

If a Zapotec urn, buried for over a thousand years in a temple in the lost city of Xoxocotlan in the Valley of Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico could talk image the stories it could tell. That's the set up in a clever resource...

Fourth graders show that they can follow directions by successfully making "The Worm" with a string. They reate a string game that they can share with students in Africa.

Celebrate Hanukkah with an engaging lesson about the history of the dreidel! After reading or listening to a short description of the dreidel's place in the Hanukkah celebration, young learners work on their own dreidels from classroom...

Students research fun things, not necessarily toys and games, which were developed during lifetime of Lucy Webb Hayes, and create PowerPoint presentations.

Students are asked to identify different parts of the Monopoly game. They discuss the different tokens, the play money, the houses, and the different places. Students are asked to hypothesize why the creator of the game, Charles Darrow,...

Students consider different cultural viewpoints. In this Native American history lesson, students examine artifacts and then conduct research on selected Native American tribes.