Building the Fair
Appropriate for grades 5-8
Students will examine how the 1962 Seattle World's Fair site was transformed from a mixed-use neighborhood into the Seattle Center we know today, and how this process resulted from human decisions, negotiations, and sacrifices.
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Curriculum
Unit 8 Lesson 2 Worksheet
Unit 8 Lesson 4 Worksheet
Maps:
Unit8_MAP_Kroll_SeattleCenter-SitePreDemolition.png
Unit8_MAP_landuse_1958.jpg
Unit8_MAP_Chapman_1909.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Google_2011.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Jackson_1907.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Kroll_1912.pdf
Unit8_MAP_McKees_1894.big.pdf
Unit8_MAP_McKees_1894.detail.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1888.30.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1888.31.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1888.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.64a.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.64b.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.65a.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.65b.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.71a.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.72a.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.72b.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893x.pdf
Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1905.pdf
Unit8_MAP_SeattleCenter_2011.pdf
Unit8_MAP_WorldsFair_1962.jpg
Unit 8 List of Historic Photos
Predictions:
Unit8_PREDICTIONS_Threshold-ThreatScript.pdf
Unit8_PREDICTIONS_Worldof-Tomorrow.pdf
Public Records:
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_223_4th.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_302_2nd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_315_5th.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_318_2nd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_320_2nd.pdf
Unit8_PropertyRecords_-propertycard_315_3rd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_- letter_dorothyisaacsdocs.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-demolitiondocs.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-eminentdomaindocs.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-GunderBirkeland.2.CM.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-GunderBirkeland.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-GunderBirkeland_3.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-mapsitechanges_1958.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-obit_FrankJHart.JPG
Unit8_PublicRecords_-obit_PingChow.png
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycard_313_3rd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycard_314_4th.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycard_323_3rd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_120_4th.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_202_Republican.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_208_Thomas.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_209_Harrison.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_215_NobHil.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_219_4th.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_219_NobHil.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_325_3rd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_329_3rd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_334_2nd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_367_John.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_528_2nd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_530_2nd.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycards_321_5th.pdf
Unit8_PublicRecords_sermon_-GunderBirkeland4.pdf
Unit8_Lesson3_PolkDirectories.pdf
Warren Avenue School:
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-pointedprose_school.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-pointedprose_arena.pdf
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Unit8_WarrenSchool_-CivicCenterFund.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ConvertLowell.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-Counciloks.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-CouncilOKs_p2.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-CourtReviewAsked.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-CourtsokCondeming.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ExhibitSuggested.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-FarewllTour.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-FondFarewell.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-HeadQuits.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-HeadQuitstext.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-History_WAS_p2.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-HistoryWAS_p1.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-MementoSought.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-PlanMovesAhead.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-Plans_p1.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-Plans_p2.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-Plans_p3.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-PTAScouts.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ReplacementValue_1-11-58.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ReunionProposed.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SaleProbable.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SiteEnlargedp2.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SiteEnlarged.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SiteEnlarged_p1.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SpasticChild.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SpasticChild_p1.pdf
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-State.Acquires.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ToBeSold_p1.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ToBeSold_p2.png
Unit8_WarrenSchool_-PTAScouts.pdf
The Imagine curriculum is a project of The Next Fifty and was made possible with funding from the Seattle Center Foundation and 4Culture. Additional in-kind support was provided by KCTS 9, HistoryLink, The Seattle Times Newspapers In Education, Jack Straw Productions, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Museum of History & Industry, the Seattle Architectural Foundation, Bellevue Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and the Edmonds School District.
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