Working in groups of 2-3 students to describe the family using observations and then interpret what the artifacts and evidence tells you.
http://amhistory.si.edu/house/default.asp <-------Click the link for the Choate family resource.
Post your answers to the following questions.
1. Which family are you investigating? Where was their home? (locate the town in Google Maps) What kind of place was it?
2. Who lived there?
3. What did they do for work? How prosperous was the family?
4. List three artifacts from the family’s home and explain what they might tell you about how they
lived.
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Explain how your life might be different if you were part of this family.