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Summary and Objective
Students will discover that daily lessons found in textbooks from the 19th century included underlying messages about moral behavior within the academic subject matter. Students will examine their own textbooks and look for similarities.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Students will look at excerpts from the textbooks chosen from the American Centuries Digital Collection.
Step 2.
In small groups students will look for morality messages embedded within the academic lessons.
Step 3.
They will record the morality messages and as a class discuss the possible reasons why they were included in the textbooks.
Step 4.
Students will then examine their own textbooks looking for modern day similarities. (Some possible messages might concern math problems referencing recycling, global warming, saving the rain forests, etc.)
Step 5.
Students will then discuss whether the purpose of the embedded lessons today is the same as it was in the past. The discussion should include what's the same and what's different.
Step 6.
As an extension students could write their own math problems and
include some behavior principles within them.
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