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Prairie Voices: Spare Time

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Young scholars examine forms of recreation throughout the last 150 years. In this leisure time lesson, students investigate leisure activities in pre- and post-industrial society as they listen to a teacher-led lecture and discuss their impressions.

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3rd - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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