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Orphan Trains

By Phyllis Bartosiewicz
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"How did orphan trains impact the way that we care for children today?"
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  Understandings
and Standards


 Activities


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Understandings and Standards

Core Understandings
  • Economic scarcity can have a dramatic impact on the lives of adolescents.
  • Understanding how social practices began can help us to appreciate the social practices that exist today.
Learning Objectives
  • Students will research information on orphan trains and orphan train riders.
  • Students will analyze why orphan trains were started.
  • Students will create a web page to communicate their learning on orphan trains and orphan train riders.
  • Students will decide if the orphan train movement was a good thing or a bad thing for children.
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Social Studies
Middle School
Strand I. Historical Perspective
I.2. Comprehending the Past
All students will understand narratives about major eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved, describing the setting, and sequencing the events.
I.3. Analyzing and Interpreting the Past
All students will reconstruct the past by comparing interpretations written by others from a variety of perspectives and creating narratives from evidence.
I.4. Judging Decisions from the Past
All students will evaluate key decisions made at critical turning points in history by assessing their implications and long-term consequences.
Strand IV. Economic Perspective
IV.1. Individual and Household Choices
All students will describe and demonstrate how the economic forces of scarcity and choice affect the management of personal financial resources, shape consumer decisions regarding the purchase, use, and disposal of goods and services, and affect the economic well-being of individuals and society.
Strand V. Inquiry
V.2. Conducting Investigations
All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a question, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypotheses, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology.