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Mining Anthracite - Lattimer Massacre: What's Beneath the Surface?

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Mining Anthracite - Lattimer Massacre: What's Beneath the Surface?

Grade Levels

5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Course, Subject

Economics, History
Related Academic Standards
6.2.3.F 6.2.3.F

Identify private economic institutions.
6.2.5.F 6.2.5.F

Compare and contrast types of private economic institutions.
6.2.6.F 6.2.6.F

Explain the influence of private economic institutions on the local and state economy.
8.2.3.D 8.2.3.D

Identify and describe how conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations have impacted the history and development of Pennsylvania.

  • Ethnicity and race
  • Working conditions
  • Immigration
  • Military conflict
  • Economic stability
8.2.4.D 8.2.4.D

Distinguish between conflict and cooperation among groups and organization that impacted the history and development of Pennsylvania

  • Ethnicity and race
  • Working conditions
  • Immigration
  • Military conflict
  • Economic stability
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  • Big Ideas
    All economic systems must answer what, and how, goods and services will be produced, and who will consume those goods and services.
    Career choice and preparation are lifelong processes based on many influences and using many strategies.
    Change impacts career options and choices.
    The history of the Commonwealth continues to influence Pennsylvanians today, and has impacted the United States and the rest of the world.
    There is a definitive relationship between education and career planning and choice.
  • Concepts
    Components of a career plan.
    Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending society in the Pennsylvania.
    Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending society in the Pennsylvania. Domestic instability, ethnic and racial relations, labor relation, immigration, and wars and revolutions are examples of social disagreement and collaboration.
    Economic factors impact employment opportunities.
    Effect of school subjects, extracurricular activities and community experiences on career preparation.
    Factors that impact career choices.
    Fluctuations of economic activity refer to an economic cycle.
    Groups that have influenced Pennsylvania history had different beliefs, customs, ceremonies, traditions, and social practices.
    Human organizations work to socialize members and, even though there is a constancy of purpose, changes occur over time.
    Social entities clash over disagreement and assist each other when advantageous.
    The relationship of career interests to career choice.
  • Competencies
    Describe how growth and decline of economic activity predicts future trends.
    Describe the influences that impact personal career choices.
    Identify a group in Pennsylvania history and explain how it differed from other groups.
    Summarize how conflict and compromise in Pennsylvania history impact contemporary society.

Description

Students will analyze ethnic and labor issues surrounding the Lattimer Massacre to determine how the event contributed to the growth of unions. Students will role play to simulate the fact that "coal miners in both the anthracite and bituminous regions proved adept at organization as well as strikes, as they formed hundreds of small local assemblies with the problems of their trades."

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Access this lesson at:  Mining Anthracite - Lattimer Massacre: What's Beneath the Surface?

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Story Credits:  https://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-B



The idea for ExplorePAhistory.com first took shape early in the year 2000. Kathleen Pavelko, President and CEO of WITF, Inc. (Harrisburg's PBS and NPR affiliate), imagined the creation of an online resource that would make innovative use of the nearly 2,000 historical markers that the state's official history agency, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), had been placing on the Pennsylvania landscape since 1946. The new web site would make Pennsylvania and American history more exciting and available to public audiences, while providing educational resources for K-12 teachers and promoting visitation to the state's many historic sites and museums. When Pavelko and her colleagues from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network presented the idea for such a web site to officials at the PHMC, they quickly agreed to a partnership. And ExplorePAhistory.com was born.

 

ExplorePAhistory.com was launched in the spring of 2003 with support from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the William Penn Foundation, and the United States Department of Education. From the start, WITF has assumed responsibilities for project management, while PHMC has taken on content management responsibilities. WITF has managed funds and overseen the site's initial technical development by Pittsburgh-based firm Ripple Effects Interactive and subsequent development by MATRIX, a program based at Michigan State University. PHMC has worked with the Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, and history professionals across the state to create the site's content. The two partners also worked with the Ridgway School District to secure and manage Teaching American History Grants and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce educational content.

 

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