INQUIRY 3

THE DECAMETER

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DESCRIPTION:
Students use the Decameter program on the History Lab CD-ROM and ephemera images from the Time Resource Kit (www.historylab.org) to build collage images of different decades. Menus of men's and women's fashion, vehicles, street scenes, and posters are provided for comparative purposes.

The primary emphasis of this activity is to help students gain an understanding of the stylistic indicators of the past ten decades, what technologies were available, and how popular culture reflects societal trends.

OBJECTIVES:
1.  To identify and recreate the "look and feel" of past decades.

2.  To build an understanding of decade sequences, related historical happenings, and material culture.

RELATED EALRS:
Writing: 1.1, 2.2, 2.3
Social Studies: 1, 2
Science: 1.1, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2
Math: 1.2, 5

Author: SL
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