Understanding Goal Understanding Goal

Discoveries can be supported by primary sources that demonstrate multiple perspectives

Directions

Examine primary source clues using inquiry processes to answer an investigative question or articulate a historical interpretation.

  1. Before doing this activity, please complete the "What's in your pocket?" Model Activity.
  2. Follow the steps in the "Life in a Box" Facilitator's Guide. Included in that guide are the following materials:
  3. Complete the "Life in a Box" Assessment

Best Instructional Practices

The links in this table open PDF files, which can be viewed with the free Adobe Reader. Boxes used in AAMNVA workshops. View a PDF version of the following chart

  Pre-1700s 1700s - late 1800s Late 1800s - early 1900s Early 1900s -present

Reformers

Reformers make sacrifices to achieve their goal.		 10. Buddha
(WHI.4d, WHII.14a)		 11. Frederick Douglass
(VUS.7a, USI.9d, USI.8d)
12. Clara Barton
(USI.9f)		 13. Jane Addams
(USII.3b)
14. Susan B. Anthony
(Hist 2.11, VUS.6c, VUS.8d, USI.8d, USII.3e)
15. Helen Keller
(Hist 2.11) 		16. Cesar Chavez
17. Jackie Robinson
(Hist 2.11)
18. Rosa Parks
(Hist 3.11, USII.8a)
19. Gandhi
(WHII.13a)

Inventors

Inventors stick to an idea until it works.		 20. Gutenberg
(APS 5.2, WHI.13d, WHII.3c)
21. DaVinci
(WHI.13c, WHII.2b)
22. Galieo
(Sci 4.7, 6.8, WHII6a)		 23. Ben Bannecker
24. Ben Franklin
(Hist 1.2, VUS.4c, USI.6c, Sci 4.3, LS13 )		 25. Alexander Graham Bell
(VUS.8b, USII.3b)
26. Thomas Edison
(VUS.8b, USII.3b, Sci 4.3)
27. Wright Brothers
(VUS.8b, USII.5a) 		28. Sigmund Freud
29. Margaret Mead

Artists

Artists' work reflect society.		 30. Petrarch
(WHI.13c)		 31. Walt Whitman
32. Harriet Beecher Stowe 		33. Thomas Nast
(USII.3b)
34. Duke Ellington
(USII.5c) 		35. Langston Hughes
(USII.5c)
36. Diego Rivera

Leaders

Leaders make changes that last beyond their lifetime.		 40. Mansa Musa
(Hist 3.2)
41. Caesar
(APS 5.2, WHI.6f) 		42. Thomas Jefferson
(Hist 3.11, VUS.5d, VUS.6a, VS.5b, USI.7d)
43. George Washington
(Hist K.1, 1.2, 2.11, 3.11, VUS.4c, VS.6a, USI.6c)

44. Matthew Perry
(USII.4a)
45. Abraham Lincoln
(Hist K.1, 1.2, 2.11, VUS.7a, USI.9d)
46. Teddy Roosevelt
(VUS.8d, USII.4a)

Lili'uokalani (Not Colored)

 47. Winston Churchill
(USII.6a, WHII.11a)
48. Franklin D. Roosevelt
(USII.6a, WHII.11a)
49. Stalin
(USII.6a, WHII.9c)

Concepts

 51. Math- Reflection
(Math 4.17c, 5.15e) ?		 52. Science - forms of water
(Sci K.5, 1.8, 2.3) ?		 53. Holidays - Thanksgiving
(Hist K.1) ?		 54. Asian Art
(Hist 2.1) ?
55. MesoAmerican Art
(APS 5.1, WHI.11) ?

Additional Artifacts

Additional famous people with artifacts formated for the "box activity", created by teachers.

Activists

Artists

Athletes

Concepts

Explorers & Adventurers

Entrepreneurs

Military & Political Leaders

U.S. Presidents

Scientists