Day 3 TAHPS

Day 3
Visual History
The use of visual history is very important to history classes. This gives students the ability to make an honest connection from the information you are giving them and give them a visual to know who we are talking about. The students can now do research quite easily when they have websites available to them and they don’t have to have everything copied and handed out to them.

Steamship Arabia
The Steamship Arabia was great. I had never been there but I knew the story. I am glad that the Hawley family decided that their find was more important as a museum than as selling the items on ebay. It was overwhelming as to the amount of cargo that was on such a small ship. I understand that it was going to be sold at stores when it arrived up river. It did create several questions for me that the museum guide was able to answer. Such as has any families ever come back to claim that their family lost the items? The answer was no. Another question was insurance claims, and whether or not they were compensated from any of the goods. It turns out that only three companies made claims and they were not successful in proving how much goods were on the boat.
The most ironic part is that the boat sunk in 15 feet of water. The crew and passangers were able to go to the top deck and wait to be shuttled across to shore. How funny would that have been to be on top of a boat that was sunk.