You are a member of a teamof curators at the History Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a curator, your work is sometimes like that of a detective. One of your team's assignments is to go through an old trunk donated to the History Center several months ago. To your great satisfaction, you discovered that the trunk is filled with interesting objects from the Kelsey family. The trunk contains letters, photographs and maps that tell more about the family. To begin putting the pieces of the puzzle together, read What We Know about the Kelsey family. As you carefully unpack the trunk, you take a close look at each new artifact. Step 1Look at the list of documents and click on each one to preview what it contains. Step 2Develop research questions and identify which artifacts will help you answer those questions. Here are a few questions to begin your research.
Write two or three more research questions. Step 3Look at the inventory list of documents. Identify which artifacts will help you answer each question. Step 4Now you are ready to write captions for each artifact in your Kelsey museum display. Work with a partner and write captions for one or more items that will be included in your museum display. The caption should be two to four sentences in length describing the main idea of the item.
Step 5Print a copy of each artifact for a classroom display. Display a copy of each artifact in your classroom and place your caption with each item.
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