• Compare and contrast the city’s buildings and design in 1850’s and 1950’s
• Compare and contrast the city’s people, work and lifestyle of the 1850’s and 1950’s
• Create a Venn Diagram

Show Me Standards 1.2, 1.8, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.6

Process

• Reflect on what they have learned about St. Louis in lessons 1 and 2.
• Return to the Virtual City and travel through time (using the time travel feature) to note the similarities and differences of both time periods.
• In small groups, have the students draw a Venn diagram on chart paper noting what remains the same about the city in the overlap and what was unique in the city in the 1850’s and 1950’s in their respective circles. Have students focus on the culture of the city as shown in the website through the buildings, the people, the neighborhoods, transportation, occupations, etc.

Directions for teachers

• Link here to black line masters for lesson 3

Additional Lesson Plan Ideas

• Have students complete a time capsule for today to further compare the changes in the city. Have students take a trip downtown or look at current maps and brochures. Ask students to interview friends, family members or neighbors who work downtown. Ask again how the changes have improved city living and what the disadvantages of the changes are.

• Ask students to create a time capsule for fifty years in the future. What changes might occur to further improve the city? Which buildings, roads, or districts will be removed? Will there be advances in technology that will eliminate some of the city’s landscape? Draw a map of the future city.