More About This Resource...

• In this Moveable Museum lesson plan, students examine media images and consider how they tend to focus on the sensational, the violent, and the picturesque rather than on daily life. The nine-page PDF guide has:

  • Educator materials—background information, teacher strategies, assessment guidelines, and detailed notes about the curriculum standards addressed.
  • Bedouin Tent Diorama—a black-and-white photograph of the diorama of this tent filled with objects, which is part of the museum's Hall of Asian Peoples.

• Completion Time

  Less than a week

• Topic

  Anthropology

• Subtopic

  General

• Subtopic

  Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
  Grades K-4:

  • Culture• Time, continuity and change• Power, Authority, and Governance• Civic Ideals and Practices

  Grades 5-8:

  • Culture• Time, continuity and change• Individual Development and Identity• Power, Authority, and Governance• Civic Ideals and Practices

• Learning Standard

  Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
  Grades K-4:

  • Culture• Time, continuity and change• Power, Authority, and Governance• Civic Ideals and Practices

  Grades 5-8:

  • Culture• Time, continuity and change• Individual Development and Identity• Power, Authority, and Governance• Civic Ideals and Practices