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    . Coal miner's children play in front yard, Chaplin, West Virginia. Chaplin West Virginia United States, 1938. Sept. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017752783/.  Pre K - 2    3 - 5    Special Education    English/Language Arts    Physical Education  play

    Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Children playing, New York City, New York. New York State United States New York, 1941. Dec. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017727523/.

    Vachon, John, photographer. Children playing with boats, Grundy Center, Iowa. Iowa Grundy Center United States, 1940. Apr. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017719604/.

    Children playing in snow in Norwich, Connecticut. Norwich United States Connecticut, 1940. Nov. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017748574/.

      Mountain children playing marbles after school in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Kentucky Breathitt County United States, 1940. [Sept.?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017757406/.

    https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Step%20In%20-%20Step%20Out%20-%20Step%20Back_2.pdf

     

    Looking at perspective: How Children Play.

    Using these primary sources in the near 1940’s, have your students look at the way children play (I was intentional to pick various locations in the United States.) Students can look at how a child’s environment affects their play or what they play. Students can also compare their own play and how their play is the same and different. Using the thinking routine by Harvard’s Project Zero, Step In, Step Back, Step Out, allow students time to take each “thinking step” to examine each source.

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      Cheryl Best   - Your positive focus on play and recreation is certain to be engaging for students of all ages :-)

    The primary source set Children's Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century also provides valuable materials along with a Teacher's Guide on this topic.

    Wonderful photographs and great lesson idea  

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    Cheryl Best!  Good way to start some analysis - having little learners connect to what they know “playing” and “children”.

    Thanks  

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    Margaret Lincoln for the additional link.  Students will also be fascinated with the playground equipment (and clothing).  So different than today’s much improved safety features!

    https://www.loc.gov/item/2016804598/

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