National History Education Clearinghouse

Using Primary Sources

Antiques Roadshow Teacher's Guide

Producer: WGBH

Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/teachers.html

The creators of the Public Broadcasting Series (PBS), Antiques Roadshow developed this guide to integrating material culture into the classroom. Using artifacts from the show, such as late-19th-century American Indian clothing and a napkin drawing by Andy Warhol, it presents strategies for teaching with material culture and questions to ask about how people make, collect, and use material objects.