Time Travel: Transportation & Communication Then and Now
Time Travel: Transportation & Communication Then and Now
Level: Advanced: Day 5 – Follow-up activity
Time: 45 – 50 minutes (1 class)
Materials:
Vocabulary:
leisureliness, transmission, public-spirited, turbulent, cumbrous
Objectives:
Students will:
1) understand the consequences wrought by slowed transportation and its effects upon communication during the late 18th – early 19th century; and
2) understand the difference between travel then and travel today.
Activities:
1) Have students research the difficulties of transportation during late 18th century America, and its effects on communication.
2) As a class, have students compare and contrast these difficulties to those they would encounter today and tomorrow.