Unveiling Stories: Children at Work
Ellen Rogers
Cultures +3
Age Levels Primary (5 to 8 years old), Elementary (9 to 12 years old), Middle School (13 to 15 years old), High School (16 to 18 years old)
I created this collection to have my students understand better the role children played in the past. Considering how quickly I have to teach history to my 4th graders I wanted to rely on photographs to help orient the students into time and place. I focused on the late 1800s into the mid-1900s. The students in my class wanted to know more about children's lives during the time period we were learning about. The purpose of the collection is to push the students to think beyond what they immediately see and consider the bigger ideas captured in these photographs.
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Students engaged in thinking routines during this activity:
See, Think, Wonder
- What do you see?
- What do you think?
- What do you wonder?
Unveiling Stories
- What is the story?
- What is the human story?
- What is the world story?
- What is the new story?
- What is the hidden story?
Shoe Shine Boy
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Laundry Girl • New Orleans, LA
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Hot lunches for children of agricultural workers in day nursery of Okeechobee, Migratory Labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Night shift leaving for home
National Museum of American History
Boy at Loom, Cotton Mill, Indiana, 1908
National Museum of American History
Worker in a Field, Massachusetts, 1911
National Museum of American History
Young Worker
National Museum of American History
Mule Spinner and His Assistant, Burlington, Vermont, 1909
National Museum of American History
Group Unpacking Tomato Cans, Indianapolis, 1908
National Museum of American History
5 Boys and 2 men, unidentified
National Museum of American History
Peanut Vender
National Museum of American History
Newsboys/Girl Holding Papers
National Museum of American History
See/Think/Wonder: Project Zero Visible Thinking Routine
SI Center for Learning and Digital Access
Unveiling Stories: Project Zero Global Thinking Routine
SI Center for Learning and Digital Access
Lesson Plan
Ellen Rogers
