Lesson Plans

The following are the lesson plan modules for students:

Anthropology: How Were American Indian Groups Exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition? Go!

Electricity: Imagine what it was like for visitors to come from homes lit only by candlelight and take in a 250-foot high spinning transportation wheel lit by electricity! Go!

Immigration: If the purpose of the World’s Columbian Exposition was to show the "progress of civilization," then what was the purpose of the Chinese Village on the Midway? What was the image of China it was selling? Go!