Social Studies Model Activity

Local Time Capsule

• Lesson Plan (PDF File)
• Analysis (PDF File)
• Collections with local resources (PDF File)
• List of sources used in this activity (PDF File)
• Story board (PDF File)

Virginia Resouces Used in this Learning Activity

• Map Bird’s Eye View of Alexandria, 1863
• The Pentagon, circa 1950
• Sheet Music, Flow Gently Potomac , 1851
• Slave Pen, Alexandria, VA, circa 1860s
• Confederate Monument Alexandria , VA , 1900-1906
• Carrying Boy, Glass Factory, Alexandria, VA 1911
• Ord-Weitzel Gate, Arlington Cemetery between 1900-1920
• Toast to Virginia, Song Sheet

Washington D.C. Resources

• Photo of Washington Senators Baseball Team, 1903
• Rock Creek Park , 1896
• U.S. Treasury Soldiers and Incomplete Washington Monument, April 1865
• Official Women’s Suffrage Program, 1913
• Head of Suffrage Parade, Washington, DC 1913
• Smithsonian Castle , between 1880-1897
• Lincoln Memorial, 1932
• Georgetown University , 1948