Leaning Goals
- Use both historical thinking skills about objects and GIS to analyze a contemporary object.
- Develop research and analytical skills to interrogate how an object comes to occupy a space.
Introduction
Understanding the role of freshwater in a historic societies can start with our own fresh water objects. For this Curiosity assignment, I ask you to chose an object in your life that your willing to share that regularly touches fresh water, evaluate its use and its origins, and attempt to locate an analogous (similar) item in The Met Museum, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Chicago Art Institute, or British Museum
You historic item should be from the period before year 1 CE.
Instructions
- Identify an everday object (that you are willing to share) in your life that touches fresh water regularly.
- Take a picture of the object and put that picture in your Shared Assignment File.
- Find a similar object at a museum (see links above) that is from before 1 CE.
- Place the URL of your similar object in you Shared Assignment File. Right click on the object picture, copy the picture from the URL into your Shared Assignment File.
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In a paragraph, compare and contrast your object and the museum object, answering the following questions?
a. Where was it made and how far did it travel from its place of origin? Be specific about how your object came into your possession.
b. What’s the most important similarity between these two objects.
c. If your two objects hold fresh water, how much water do you estimate they hold?
d. What does your object mean to your family, and what do you speculate the object you chose meant to the historic holders of the object. (You may need to research with SmartHistory for some context about your oject.)Your paragraph should be 150-200 words
