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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that children's toys and games in the 1800's were mostly homemade from basic objects found in or near the home by discussing materials used to make toys and making clay marbles and learning how to play a game of marbles.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Students will be shown toys and games from the 1800's (cornstalk and cloth doll, wooden morrice board, clay marbles, wooden checkerboard) and compare and contrast the materials those toys were made from to the ones they play with.
Step 2.
Students will make marbles from river clay.
Step 3.
Students will learn how to play a game of marbles:
a. Draw a large circle.
b. Make a big X or criss-cross in the middle with 13 marbles.
c. Give each player a big marble, called a shooter.
d. Take the big marble and rest it on the bottom of your index finger.
d. Put the nail of your thumb under your index finger and flick your thumb up to hit the marbles.
e. Try to knock the target marbles out with your shooter.
f. Three things can happen: You could knock a marble and your shooter out of the circle. You could knock a marble out, but not your shooter. You could hit nothing.
g. The marbles you knock out are yours.
h. You keep your turn if your shooter stays in the circle.
i. The winner is the one who collect 7 marbles first.
Step 4.
Student discussion and wrap-up.
a. Did you like the game?
b. Have you ever played it before?
c. Was it hard to play?
d. How is it the same and how is it different from games you play now?
e. Why do you think this game has been popular for so long?
Homework question: Ask an adult (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) if they have ever played marbles.
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