Lesson: This is Us: Using Time Capsules to Create History

Published on June 16, 2026

This is Us: Using Time Capsules to Create History

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📝 Overview

This 70-minute lesson introduces students to American pop culture in the 1990s through a time capsule. Students then plan what could go in their own time capsule.

📚 Teacher Goals

This lesson plan (LP) guides teachers to:
  • use student-centered teaching practices
  • prompt students to collaborate, communicate, and think critically
  • facilitate collaborative decision-making through voting activities

🎯 Student Goals

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
  • think critically about a 1990s American pop culture time capsule by completing a KWL (Know - Want to Know - Learned) chart
  • identify and explain items for a class time capsule that represents their everyday lives, interests, communities, and current time period
Two photos: stuffed animal (porcupine) with big eyes. Portable cassette player with tapes on a table.
 
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