Industrial Empire, Gilded Age

A Crossword Puzzle for Higher-Order Thinking

Steven Lapham — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:02:49 -0500

The Great Irish Famine (and Immigration to USA)

Steven Lapham — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:28:59 -0400

—Maureen Murphy, Alan Singer, Maureen McCann Miletta, and Judity Y. Singer
Theme issue with brief history, excerpts from primary historical documents, references, handouts, historical fiction/diary.

This URL downloads all 16 pages of Middle Level Learning as a black-and-white pdf of about 3.0 MB:
* http://members.ncss.org/mll/09/MLLSept2000BW.pdf

Tracking a Hurricane: A Mapping Exercise in Real Time

Steven Lapham — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:18:55 -0400

—Donna Kay Mau
A classroom activity (in geography/history/current-events) for September of any year. Other items recall the “mighty storms” of Galveston (1900) and St. Croix (1772)—which a young islander, Alexander Hamilton, witnessed and wrote about (see Handout p. 16).

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Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793

Steven Lapham — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:03:14 -0400

—Sandra W. Moss, M.D. Book review of “An American Plague” by Jim Murphy. Also in this issue: Handouts and teaching ideas, such as handout/graph “On the Trail of an Epidemic: Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1845-1860” and “Connect-the-Dots: Making Meaning from Historical Evidence” by Chris Edwards, which discusses smallpox and the Columbian Exchange. read more »

Using Cartograms to Explore the Electoral College: Comparing 1908 with 2008

Steven Lapham — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:18:20 -0400

—Peter William Moran, Kimberly Dawn Miller, and Kurk Aegerter
Students create “data maps” as they learn about cartography, the Electoral College, historical presidential elections, and how U.S. demographics changed over the course of a century. This issue includes “Maps, Representations of the Earth, and Biases” by
Peter C. Cormas, and “How Politicians Gerrymander” by Steven S. Lapham. read more »

All History is Local: Researching the Place Where You Live

Steven Lapham — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:13:41 -0400

—John P. Dillon read more »

King Coal: A Piece of Eastern Pennsylvania History

Steven Lapham — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:02:59 -0400

—Jill M. Beccaris and Christine Woyshner
A variety of activities help students learn about the coal miners and steels workers (many of them new immigrants) during the Industrial Age. A handout is based on an oral interview, and provides a photo of child coal miners, 1911.

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"Workin' on the Railroad": African American Labor History

Steven Lapham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:12:54 -0400

—Rebecca C. Maher
North Carolina eighth grade students work on a project involving history, music, art, and interviews with elderly citizens. Includes handouts with primary sources and the story of Train Schedules, Standardization, and “The Day of Two Noons.”

This URL downloads all 16 pages of Middle Level Learning as a pdf of about 0.8 MB:
* http://members.ncss.org/mll/21/mll21.pdf

A Mighty Storm: Galveston, Texas, 1900

Steven Lapham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:31:16 -0400

—Steven S. Lapham

Background and lyrics to a 1942 blues song about the 1900 Galveston hurricane. Also an article about Alexander Hamilton’s close brush with big winds in 1772.

This issue needs to be scanned. Steve will do.

The Great Irish Famine (and Immigration to USA)

Steven Lapham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:20:46 -0400

—Maureen Murphy, Alan Singer, Maureen McCann Miletta, and Judity Y. Singer
Historical background, historical fiction, and primary source text about the Irish exodus to America. A theme issue of MLL.

URL To come. Steve will scan.