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Inquiry Starter Set - Then and Now: Cars
Album Description
One of the most effective ways for young historians to engage with primary sources and history is to look at the development of common items across the historical range. Cars are one of those ubiquitous modes of transportation that are found throughout the last 120 years. Used images from Free to Use and Reuse: Cars
- Using the images, have students first do a See, Think, Wonder independently.
- Next have students do a Think, Pair, Share with their ideas. Repeat with all images.
- Finally, have students talk about changes over time, using specific examples from the images.
Extension: Challenge students to think about what a future car might look like?
Pre K - 2 3 - 5 Social Studies/History cars then and now free to use and reuse
First and ten millionth Ford
[Road construction delays traffic on West Side Highway, at 79th Street, New York City, during rush hour] / World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna.
A vintage Chevrolet Bel-Air automobile, parked in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"
