INSTANT MUSEUM WORKSHEET
For the rest of the class period you and a team of classmates are "curators" in a new museum related to the history of American children. Examine and/or read the seven artifacts scattered around the room. Then write a 2-3 sentence museum label for each.
Mission Statement
The Museum of Children's History is dedicated to:
--Showing and describing the forces shaping the contours of children's lives in the United
States.
--To demonstrating how attitudes about children and childrearing styles have evolved over time.
--To display ways that children were expected to act—and how they actually acted.
1. Photograph of 19 th
tombstone to young girl, Buffalo, NY
2. Letter from boy to administrators of Home for Dependent Children, Milwaukee, 1902
3. Photographs of children in Milwaukee park, ca. 1910s
4. The Oracle , Bay View High School Yearbook, ca 1930s
5. WWII Posters, ca. 1940s
6. This is Jim , book, ca. 1950s
7. Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood , television show, ca. 1960s-1980s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_GnjE-des&feature=related