Middle School

Grade Levels Middle School, 6th to 8th Grade

Smithsonian Artifact Auction

Lesson Abstract

Have you ever looked at a display in a museum and wondered how it was created? How did the museum curator decide what artifacts to include? Does the way the pieces are displayed make the display more interesting? Here is a lesson to give middle school students the opportunity to work in small groups to create their own museum style display poster.

Middle School

Technology Lesson - Kill or Cure? Conflict and Cooperation in the French & Indian War

Students will research, read, interpret, and evaluate primary and secondary sources on the French and Indian War in order to understand how the new technologies – the coveted trade goods of the French and English – affected the lifestyle of the Northeast Native Americans in the 1700's and how that lifestyle created a dependency between the two European cultures and the Native American Indians. This lesson uses primary sources to show trade goods and changing technology.