In this activity you will be reading about the history of carousels, making a paper replica of a carousel animal and researching the development of carousels to produce a timeline. With your teacher, please review your school's acceptable use policy for work on the Internet. Also, links to the web often change. Tell your teacher when you find a poor link in this guide. Your work for this project will be in two parts.
Part one is to research the history of carousels.
You will find that the carousel is really an ancient form of art and entertainment. Visit the web sites to collect pictures and information for your timeline. In the second part you will be illustrating a picture of a carousel. Select at least 5 pictures and descriptions to draw or make copies of, that trace the development of the carousel from ancient to modern times. You may draw the pictures yourself or use those that you have printed from the page.