National Register of Historic Places________________________
Teaching with Historic Places Photo Analysis Worksheet Directions:
Use the five steps listed below to analyze the following photographs found in the Augusta Canal Interpretive Center: 1.) New Water, New Life (large mural behind Petersburg boatman 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)
display)
Factory Floor (wall mural behind loom display) Boat Parties and Picnics (near postcard display) Mill Village (wall opposite Labor vs. Management display) Return to the Waters (three photos suspended from ceiling section
before the gift shop)
Step 1: Examine the photograph for 10 seconds. How would you describe the photograph? Step 2: Divide the photograph into quadrants and study each section individually. What details—such as people, objects, and activities—did you notice? Step 3: What other information—such as time period, location, season, reason photo was taken—can you gather from this photo? Step 4: How would you revise your first description of the photo using the information noted in Steps 2 and 3? Step 5: What questions do you have about the photograph? How might you find the answers to these questions?
Student Worksheet HS B The Augusta Lumber Company, 1889 Production Possibilities Frontier
1,000 800 A B D C E
doors
600 400 200 0 100 200 300
400
500
600
sashes
1. If the Augusta Lumber Company produces 800 doors, how many sashes can it make? 2. If the Augusta Lumber Company chooses to produce 400 doors instead of 800, roughly how many more sashes can it make? 3. If the Augusta Lumber Company chooses to produce 500 sashes, instead of 460 of them, why must it give up the production of 400 doors?
4. If the Augusta Lumber Company is producing at point D on the graph, what can you say about the efficiency of its production? 5. Why isn’t the Augusta Lumber Company able to produce at point E given the current situation?
Production Possibilities - Frontier High School Lessons Answer Key The Augusta Lumber Company PPF - Student Worksheet 9-12 B 1.) If the Augusta Lumber Company produces 800 doors, it can produce 300 sashes. 2.) If the Augusta Lumber Company chooses to produce 400 doors instead of 800, it can make roughly 160 more sashes – a total of 460. 3.) According to the law of increasing opportunity cost, as more resources are allocated to one type of production, some of them will not be well suited to that type of production and will result in little additional production. To produce only sashes, the firm must use some of its resources in a way that produces few of these products. 4.) At point D on the graph, production is inefficient. It could make additional products without adding additional resources. 5.) The Augusta Lumber Company doesn’t have enough resources to produce at point E. It can reach this level of production only by adding additional resources.