Are We There Yet?

Introducing History to

Third Graders

by Mary L. Mann

Summer Fellowship 2006

Champaign County Historical Archives

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Lesson Five:

Analyzing Artifacts

1. Hand out copy of a page from the Emigrants’ Guide to each student, and give the students 2 minutes to figure out what they can about the page.

2. Show the classroom a copy of the Emigrants’ Guide with an explanation of what the guide was for.

3. Hand out the modified worksheet for artifacts. Students should choose a recorder who writes the table’s answers on the worksheet.

4. Use the students’ answers to fill in an overhead transparency of

worksheet.

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