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REVIEW:
Social Studies teachers and students will want to check out this
site. It provides a wealth of materials and information on how transportation
helped to shape America. The online exhibition takes users on a
tour through America’s past to explore how transportation
impacted various communities and the people who inhabited them from
before 1876 to the present. Over 1,000 artifacts and photos are
available in the collection that can be searched by region, time
period, or type of transportation (air, rail, road, water), or type
of vehicle. In the themes section museum staff and guest curators
use the transportation collection to take users on a journey of
America’s past through such themes as arts and culture, immigration
and migration, technology, and work and industry. Educators will
appreciate the learning resources that complement the site. Included
are standards based lesson plans that are adaptable for grades 4-11
and include units on foods & families on the move (1880s), workers
and products on the move (1920s), early highways (1930-40s), suburban
communities on the move (1950-60s) and the world's people and products
on the move (1970-2000). Additionally there are three interactive
online games that help students better understand how transportation
has impacted “the growth of American commerce, communities,
landscapes and people."
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September
2005
