Teacher’s Guide
Start here for historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more:
Children’s Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Teacher’s Guide (PDF, 554 KB)
To help your students analyze these primary sources, get a graphic organizer and guides:
Primary Sources
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Sylvester Rawding family in front of sod house
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Tenement house with children in front
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Washington, D.C. Public Schools…
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Children posed with bicycle and tricycles
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Series showing the day’s work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey…
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High up on the top floor of a rickety tenement…
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Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines
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