Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives-What content? What skills?
  3. Rationale-Why this content? Why these skills? Why now?
  4. Background
  5. Present
  6. Summative Assessment-How will I know my students achieved the content and skill objectives?
  7. Seeing Through a Critical Consumer Lens
  8. Learning Activities and Strategies
  9. Differentiation
  10. Appendix
  11. Approaches to student inquiry projects
  12. Guide to Helping Students Create Project Websites
  13. How to do this use this unit with information from your own city?
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Endnotes

Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future

Molly A. Myers

Published September 2012

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Guide Entry to 12.01.07

How does our understanding of the consumer history and consumer geography of a place inform our beliefs and vision for its future? This local history/geography unit is focused on one neighborhood in Chicago but can be applied, in form, to your city and your neighborhood. In part one, students will examine their preconceptions of the neighborhood while competing in a local speech competition. In part two, students will map various consumer aspects of the neighborhood—housing stock, retail/services, transportation, and schools—and examine primary and secondary sources to be able to tell how and why the neighborhood has changed over time. They will then use this contextual understanding to research and present ideas for working with existing institutions to promote change from within.

(Developed for AP Human Geography, grades 9-12; recommended for Human Geography, grades 9-12; U. S. History, grade 10; and Sociology, grades 11-12)

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