Goals for Balloon Car Activity

Goal: Make a car that goes 4 feet.

 (Make sure forces are not pushing your car backwards!)

 New Words:

• Axle – Connects 2 wheels
• Force – pushes and pulls that move and stop things.

Materials:

• Uninflated Balloon
• Plastic Straw
• Toothpicks
• Plastic Toy Wheels

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Challenge for Balloon Car Station:

Make your successful car as cheap as possible!

Cost of parts:

• What is the cost of your first design?
• What is the cost of your final design?
• List the price of the parts that are no longer on your car.

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This rubric is for using 3 details from the book to explain your artifact.

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This rubric is for how well-written your paragraph is.

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This rubric is for how well you made a connection between a museum artifact and Frederick Douglass’ autobiography book.

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The National Museum of African-American History & Culture has amazing collections from a variety of eras of African-American life and culture. For this project, we will explore the 1850s collection (but please explore some other decades when you can!). 

You can see the collection by clicking “Date/Era” then “1850s” here:

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection

Choose an artifact from the collection that has a connection to The Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Then, write a paragraph that explains the artifact you choose, how it connects to the book. Be sure to cite 3 details from the book in explaining your artifact. 

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This rubric is for how well-constructed the paragraphs of your essay are.

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This powerful book written by Frederick Douglass is a first-hand account of slave experiences in the United States. The Library of Congress recorded audio from former slaves in the early 1900s. Select an audio recording and listen to at least 15 minutes of the recording. Take notes as you listen so you can write this 3-paragraph essay.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/about-this-collection

Essay: Compare and contrast the life of Frederick Douglass and the person you listened to. What was the same about their experiences? What was different? Why? Be sure to cite this book 5 times in your essay.

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Here are the text and questions of this important work.

Preface from William Lloyd Garrison

Preface from Wendell Phillips

Project! Vocabulary Word Wall

Chapter 1

Project! Children and Slavery Graphic Organizer

Chapter 2

Project! Informational – Slave Songs

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Project! Themes

Chapter 5

Project! Argument

Chapter 6

Project! Understanding the Pathway to Freedom

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Project! Themes & Cover Art

Appendix

Project! Voices Remembering Slavery Essay

Project! African American History & Culture Artifact

This rubric is for how many facts or pieces of evidence you use in your paragraph about Douglass’ perception of the pathway to freedom.

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