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Zoom In Inquiry

This lesson invites students to analyze primary sources, focusing on historical photographs that illustrate technological advancements. Through sources like images from Bethune-Cookman College students using microscopes and Detroit's automobile factory in 1917, students will explore the implications of technological change on society. They will examine the details, ask critical questions, formulate hypotheses about the context, and discuss the broader picture of progress and its effects. This activity promotes critical thinking and understanding of the relationship between technology and social development.

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Zoom In Inquiry

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  1. Zoom In Inquiry Parks, G. (1943). Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Studentsusing microscopes. Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Division.

  2. What can primary sources tell us about technology? Examine primary source clues carefully. Determine what you see and what questions you might ask to get the “big picture.”

  3. What do you see?

  4. What do you see now? What inferences can you make about this photo?

  5. Describe the new objects you see.

  6. Make a hypothesis about when and where this photo was taken.

  7. What do you think happened after this photograph was taken?

  8. "Completed Product of a Great Automobile Factory Ready for Delivery, Detroit, MI." Meadville, Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company, 1917. Copyprint. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (159)

  9. How did your perception of the image change as you saw more of it? What questions does this image leave you with?

  10. Understanding the “big picture” How does new technology lead to progress? Is progress good?

  11. Examine these primary sources to determine if they illustrate how technological change affects individuals in society. Phillip Sandhurst. The Great Centennial Exhibition Critically Described and Illustrated.Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler & Co., 1876. Illustration facing p. 409. General Collections, Library of Congress (135) Type Specimens. (c. 13th century). Library of Congress: Exhibitions, World Treasures of the Library of Congress. Samuel F.B. Morse. Railway Signal Telegraph, ca. 1840. Color sketches. Page 2Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (143a,b)

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