The Legacy of
Joseph Kuhn
Peggy Christensen
Summer Fellowship
2008
To download this lesson in PDF format, click here.
Lesson 2:
Students often rely on a Google search to gather information and miss the
opportunity to investigate primary sources that would add another dimension to
their understanding of a situation or time. In this lesson they will be
analyzing a photograph as well as other primary and secondary sources.
Duration: This
lesson will take one class period.
Analysis of Local
Primary Sources: The students will be using a photo analysis worksheet to study
a picture of Main St. circa 1890 from the AHTC primary sources section on their
webpage:
http://www.usd116.org/ProfDev/AHTC/images/Turn-Century-CU/images/mainstreetchampaign.jpg
Ties to National
Primary Source: There is no national primary source in this lesson.
List of Materials and
Attachments:
Photograph looking west on Main Street
circa 1890 from the local primary sources section of the AHTC webpage @
http://www.usd116.org/ProfDev/AHTC/images/Turn-Century-CU/images/mainstreetchampaign.jpg
- http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf
- Worksheet
2
- ÒParking
Lot Historic SiteÓ from the
Kuhn Family Vertical File at the Champaign County Historical
Archives, Urbana Free Library, 210 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois.
- ÒIsaac
Kuhn, 88 Saturday, Recalls Early Local DaysÓ from the Kuhn Family Vertical File at the Champaign
County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library, 210 West Green Street,
Urbana, Illinois.
Procedure:
- Distribute
the photo analysis worksheet sheet and either project or distribute the
photo looking west on Main St. in Champaign circa 1890. If students are
viewing the picture as a projected image, use the zoom feature to help
students focus on the quadrants.
- Discuss
their answers to the photo analysis sheet then collect and access the
papers.
- Distribute
the articles titled ÒParking Lot Historic SiteÓ and ÒIsaac Kuhn, 88
Saturday, Recalls Early Local Days.Ó
- Hand
out Worksheet 2.
- Discuss,
collect, and evaluate the worksheet.
