Excerpted from Social Studies Projects . They identify artifacts from the late twentieth century and build a museum with various theme rooms to display their findings.
Findings come primarily from catalogs and newspapers.
To place emphasis upon imagination and creativity. Follow an outline to produce poster displays about artifacts from the late twentieth century. Produce signs to go with their artifact displays. Center the discussion on what we can learn from things used by people long ago. Discuss what these things tell us about the people who used them, or see if students can guess what they were used for.