Full Description
Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies asks students to critically examine their own culture by contrasting it with the daily lives of average people in the past. What people ate, where people lived, and the functions of families are examined and contrasted to subjective, cultural ideals prescribing what families, food, and housing ought to have been. The relationship between housing, food, and family and social class, status, and gender are emphasized. Each chapter includes essential questions to focus student inquiry; historical overviews focused on changes in family, food, and housing from the pre-industrial era, through its transformation during the Industrial Revolution and into the twentieth century; learning activities; and primary source documents and images. This unique approach to teaching history and social studies supports thematic instruction, culturally responsive teaching, place-based education, and literacy in the elementary, middle, or secondary classrooms.
Contents
Author's Note
Introduction
Chapter 1: Family—Home is Where the Heart Is
Defining Family
In the Classroom
Notes
Chapter 2 Housing—Home, Sweet Home
Architecture of Houses: Mass-produced or Vernacular?
Life at Home - Then and Now
Houses of Peasants and Farmers - The Average Working Household
How do Historical Sources Affect Interpretations of Houses and Homes?
In the Classroom
Notes
Chapter 3: Housework and Domestic Service—A Woman's Work is Never Done
Domestic Service in America History
Solving the Servant Problem
In the Classroom
Notes
Chapter 4: Food—We Are What We Eat
Pre-Industrial Diet of the Medieval Peasant
Food, Dining, and Social Status
In the Classroom
Notes
Chapter 5: Home Cooking From Scratch
History of Recipes & Cookbooks - Ancient World to Twentieth Century
Advertising, Reform, and Home Cooking - late 1800s to mid-1900s
Pure, Safe, Wholesome, Healthful - Who Decides?
In the Classroom
Notes
Chapter 6: Education Theories Behind the Themes
Thematic Instruction
Place-Based Education
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Aligning to Standards
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
