Lesson Plans

To promote an appreciation of museums and their collections

To promote deductive reasoning skills

To encourage the use of oral history

To encourage the interpretation and evaluation of evidence presented through historical objects

To understand what objects tell us about every day life in the past and present

To analyze, interpret, and evaluate primary source material

To understand an event within an historical and social context

To discuss major conflicts in Louisiana’s past

To understand, interpret, and evaluate chronological relationships and patterns

To understand and analyze primary and secondary historical sources

To improve skills of comparison and contrast

To improve writing skills

To consider the impact of culture and environment on regional food preferences and methods

To examine the existence of regional differences through foodways

To demonstrate the relationship between culture, food, and history

To encourage students to explore their own family traditions

To discuss food use for special celebrations

To describe and compare family food traditions in the present and past

To understand such attributes as length, area, weight, and volume and to select the appropriate type of unit for measuring each

To complete simple math problems using percentages, multiplication, addition, and subtraction, in the context of real-life situations

To illustrate the impact of new transportation technology, as well as other inventions since the 1800s

To show that the French Quarter was (and still is) a self-sustaining neighborhood containing everything that a family needs to live

To improve map reading skills

To present information about the history of New Orleans

To consider how people in the nineteenth century dealt with death and dying