Examining Labor & Working Conditions in the Gilded Age: A Gallery Walk Exercise
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- This bundle of US history gallery walk lesson plans is sure to get your students moving around the room and engaging in the visual analysis of history with primary sources. Teachers will find this collection of ten lesson plans spanning from the Gilded Age to the Vietnam War ready to implement in thPrice $21.00Original Price $30.00Save $9.00
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Engage your students in developing historical empathy regarding the experience of a worker living through the Gilded Age and Progressive Era with the use of historical photographs. Using a gallery walk format, students will examine the impact of industrial growth and the experience of American workers. Lesson includes a pre-walk political cartoon analysis exercise to foster brainstorming, 15 photo placards, a teacher lesson plan with questions to promote critical thinking for each photo, and an exit ticket activity, which involves students using what they learned to imagine that they are a muckraker writing an editorial for change to working conditions. To help structure the gallery walk, students utilize a provided scaffold to guide their thinking in answering the provided essential question. The exit ticket includes a rubric for easy grading. This is a great lesson to engage your students in thinking about the Gilded Age/Progressive Era and to promote visual literacy!
Looking to focus more on urbanization during this period? Check out Urbanization During the Gilded Age-Good or Bad? Analyzing Photographs. Also, be sure to check out "A 'Progressive' Reformer Dinner Party: A Speed Dating Exercise."