Procedure:

Discuss and Define Transportation.

1. On 3x5 cards write what you think transportation means.

2. Research what types of transportation were available around the turn of the twentieth century (1900).

3. Research what types of transportation are available today.

Resource for Research:

Big Six Information Access Skills

View the three photographs and film clip depicting farm markets at the turn of the twentieth century.

1. Look at the three photographs and film clip below. Make a list of interesting details. Think about the people in the picture, the action taking place, and anything you find unusual. Click on the image to make it larger.

New Orleans, La., a corner of the French Market (detail)

Old Maxwell Market Market Street Scene 1910s "The Ghetto", Chicago

Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York (detail)

New York City "ghetto" fish market / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Life of a City: Early Films of New York City 1898-1906

View the three photographs depicting farm markets at the turn of the twenty-first century.

1. Look at the three photographs below. Make a list of interesting details. Think about the people in the picture, the action taking place, and anything you find unusual. Click on the image to make it larger.

Railroad Avenue market in Paterson, New Jersey Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting American Memory

Fulton Fish Market New York City Photograph courtesy Philip Greenspun

Bird-In-Hand Farmers Market Route 340 & Maple Avenue Bird-In-Hand, PA 17505

Deduce and interpret the information in the photographs

1. Use the Photo Analysis Guide for examining primary source documents, filling in the knowledge and deductions/interpretations columns.

Formulate questions for further investigation

1. Review the definition of transportation the class wrote at the start of this lesson.

2. Look over the deductions/interpretations column and write three questions these photos raise in your mind. Consider what else you would need to know to have a more complete understanding of the subject matter in the picture.

3. Explain to your group why these questions rose from the pictures.

4. Choose a question and begin to research it further using the Big Six Information Problem-Solving Approach.