Susan+Fronek+Work+in+Progress

[] This is a movie clip of canal boats moving down a canal. Although it is not of our old canal specifically if definitely shows the students what it was like to travel on a canal and through the locks. [] (train) [] (tunnel) Rather than reinventing the wheel these are the same clips as I used in 6A2. I would use them as above to show the students what train travel was like in the early years. [] This movie clip of early steam powered automobiles will be used to show the students what the old cars looked like and how slowly they moved. [] This clip shows Wilbur Wright flying his plane. We will compare how different his airplane was compared to our planes today. [] [] These are maps from 1851 and from 1838. It shows the lack of roads and the existence of the canal and railroad lines. We can compare a current map of today with this one.
 * Videos**
 * Maps**

[] I could use this sheet music to compare travel from Fargo to Chicago as mentioned in the song, by car, by plane, by train. [] The lyrics of this I could use to read to the student. It talks about how hard it was for people just learning how to use a new Ford in 1918 and comparing it to driving a horse drawn carriage. [] Even though our canal is not the Erie Canal, this sheet music could be used because in the lyrics it tells about life working on a canal. That would have been similar. For the age of my students, these sheet music selections will be used as stories.
 * Sheet Music**

[|www.memory.loc.gov] query- railroad passenger, number 11 This clip is of an old man who served as an engineer on a train. I would share with the students one of his adventures that he shares so they can hear what he really faced. [] [] [] [] [] [] These old time radio advertisements would be great for comparing these brief radio commercials to what the students watch on TV today.
 * Audio Clips **

[] This clip is a man talking about his first automobile. This clip could be used as an example of what it would be like to drive the first car. This might be hard for my students to listen to because he speaks so quickly.

[] The class could look at these travel posters and see how the vehicles look different from the vehicles we use today. We can also look at today’s travel advertisements and look at how different they are from the TV and magazine ads we have today**.**
 * Posters**

[] [|www.memory.loc.gov] query: canal boat, numbers 37 and 49 [|www.memory.loc.gov] query: airplane passenger, number 17 [|www.memory.loc.gov] query: automobile passenger, number 1, 2, 10 [] - car [] - search for train and automobiles These sites contain a variety of photographs that we will use to compare transportation for the late 1800s and early 1900s to today’s transportation.
 * Photos**

[] query: train passenger, item 18 This is newspaper article for the first steam engine passenger train ride in 1831. I could use this just to show students what a train looked like when it first began and how excited all the people were.
 * Newspaper Article**

[] query: train ticket, item 1 This is a train ticket from 1910 for $2 from Washington to Gettysburg. We will compare this train ticket to a current one.
 * Train Ticket**

[] query: train ticket, item 2 This is a sample time table form 1867. Again we can compare it to today’s time table.
 * Train Timetable**

[|engineer journal] This is a book of an engineer’s reminiscence of his career. It would be great to read bits and pieces of it to the students.
 * Engineers journal**

[|chicago encyclopedia] This source has statistics about the building of the IL Central, including acreage, miles and cost. Not sure if I would use this with my students. Probably a little too boring and meaningless to them.
 * IL Central Railroad Statistics**

[] query: automobile advertising, item 7 Although a lot of my sources so far have been for the railroad or I&M canal, we will talk also about automobiles. This advertisement from 1920 lists the cost of new cars. We again will look at the cost of cars then and the cost of them now.
 * Automobile Advertising**

[|IL statistics] This source had interesting information on numbers of vehicles, miles of roads etc. from 2000. I haven't yet found something that would have all this information from 1900. If I do once again let's compare.
 * Transportation Statistics**