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History Kit Activity GuideTo assist in lesson planning, we have made the activity guide available on-line. Many, if not most, of the activities also rely on items in the kits, but reading the activities will help you to decide which activities you'd like to use in the classroom and how you'd like to use them. This page gives a brief description of each activity in the kit. By clicking on the activity name, you can view the activity in its entirety. Geography Objective: Find where we live on a map of; the world, United States of America, Washington State, and Seattle and the greater Eastside. Find Issaquah on the map of Washington State and the Seattle map. Objective: Students name all of the things a community has such as post office, library, school, park, museum, etc and create a map of their own community. They become familiar with a map of Issaquah, map symbols and features. Students create their own map of where they live and play.
Community Activity 3: Communities and Town Histories Objective: In Communities, students learn what makes up a community and how communities are alike and different. They learn the differences between villages, towns, cities and suburbs. In Town Histories, students learn various ways to find out more about a town’s history, including street signs, town names, objects, maps, houses and buildings. Use the development of Issaquah as an example of how a community begins and grows, changing and adapting with the times.
Discovering History Activity 4: What Do Your Students Know? Objective: Allow students an opportunity to share what they already know about the history of their local community, and then brainstorm what they would like to find out about the history of their community. Activity 5: Be a History Mystery Detective Objective: Brainstorm all of the resources we have to learn about the past: photos, letters, journals, memoirs, newspapers, interviews, people, official records, artifacts, objects, etc. Discover how we learn about the past, specifically through asking questions and thinking about clues in artifacts. Objective: Using a photo that depicts life in the past in Issaquah, students learn facts about Issaquah’s history. Then, they use their imagination to write their own story about what is happening in the photos.
Native Americans Objective: Discover how Native Americans used plants in the Issaquah area to meet their basic needs, and compare that with how these basic needs are met today. Activity 8: Native American Stories Objective: Students listen to several Native American stories about how something in nature came to be. Then they write their own story about how something in nature came to be. Activity 9: Map of Native American Villages and Trails Objective: Students learn about the places that Native Americans lived, traveled, and conducted their daily lives in the Issaquah and Lake Sammamish area. Students consider solutions to the problems that the Native Americans had to face. Students also consider how natural landforms, lakes, hills, forests, wetlands, etc. influence Native American settlement and travel. Objective: Compare historical information, the age of Native American Mary Louie, and think about why interpretations of her age differ from source to source.
Early Settlers Objective: Students compare life for the early settlers and life now in Issaquah by listening to several selections from an early settler’s, Bessie Wilson Craine’s memoirs. Then students write a journal entry as if they were Bessie. Objective: Students brainstorm possible solutions to problems that Native Americans and early settlers faced in the Issaquah area.
At Home Activity 13: Living Without Lights Objective: Students examine objects that were used in the past as substitutes for their modern day electric devices (washboards for washing machines, stereograph for T.V. or movies, toy bank for electronic toys, rug beater for a vacuum, curling iron without plug for modern curling irons that heat electronically, hair curlers or perms). Objective: Learn about Beryl Baxter, Issaquah’s matriarch, renowned in the community for her quilting. Find out how pioneer girls learned math and geometry through quilting and needlepoint. Make a class quilt from fabric or construction paper, each quilt block piece depicting a different aspect of Issaquah history. Objective: Make butter just as the early settlers did. Look at an actual butter mold and press, and read an article about the history of butter presses.
At Work Activity 16: Issaquah Pioneer Life Game Objective: Students choose an occupation specific to Issaquah’s history and experience the joys and difficulties of pioneer life as they play a game. Activity 17: Our Diverse Community Objective: Students learn that the people who settled in what is now the Issaquah area, came from many different places. Students then research and document their own family tree and by doing so, discover that their family also contributes to the different ethnic, racial, religious and social groups that make up their local community. Objective: Discover the fascinating history behind the four names that people have called the area that is now known as Issaquah. Objective: Students discover how differing environments have provided varying opportunities and limits for human activity in the Issaquah area.
Children at School and at Play Activity 20: Children Now and Then Objective: Compare and contrast a child’s life at school and at play, now and 100 years ago.
Modern History: The Last 100 Years Objective: Students create a timeline of local history highlighting events and historical eras by placing information in chronological order. Objective: Students watch the Bill Haddon Mural video, and are introduced to various perspectives and historical biases. Students make their own mural of Issaquah history, each student contributing a portion. Objective: Students read or listen to memories from the book, Preserving the Stories of Issaquah. Then they write their own memories. An extension is to do an oral history with a parent or grandparent. Activity 24: Technology Causes and Effects Objective: Students examine technological advancements in transportation. Using a population graph, they see the impact that this technology has had on Issaquah, and discover how this has affected people, resources, and cultures. Activity 25: Comparing Information Objective: Read two articles about the same place or event and compare how each author chose to portray the event. Students discover how different information can be gathered when using more than one resource to learn about history. Activity 26: Celebrations and Pastimes Objective: Compare the various celebrations and pastimes Issaquah has honored over the years.
Reflection and Culminating Activities Activity 27: The Past 100 Years Objective: Students draw or write what has changed and what has stayed the same over the past 100 years. Activity 28: ABC and Who's Who Books Objective: Students organize and record information that they have learned about Issaquah’s history by creating a class “ABC’s of Issaquah’s History” or “Who’s Who” book Issaquah’s history. Activity 29: Modern Time-Capsule Trunk Objective: Create a year 2000’s museum trunk/time-capsule; each student brings an object and tells why it should be included. As a finale, students can ask to host the “Cherishing Our Heritage” exhibit at the Issaquah Historical Society. Activity 30: Brochure to the Past Objective: Students compare several brochures and then create their own brochure inviting people to visit Issaquah’s past. |
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