Unit 8, Building the Fair

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 ad how this process was the product of human decisions, negotiations, and sacrifices. (Appropriate for grades 5-8)

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Curriculum

1. C21curriculum_Unit8

Worksheets

1. Unit8_Lesson2
2. Unit8_Lesson4

Resources
Maps

1. Unit8_MAP_Kroll_SeattleCenter-SitePreDemolition.png
2. Unit8_MAP_landuse_1958.jpg
3. Unit8_MAP_Chapman_1909
4. Unit8_MAP_Google_2011
5. Unit8_MAP_Jackson_1907
6. Unit8_MAP_Kroll_1912.pdf
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8. Unit8_MAP_McKees_1894.detail
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18. Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893.72b
19. Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893
20. Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1893x
21. Unit8_MAP_Sanborn_1905
22. Unit8_MAP_SeattleCenter_2011
23. Unit8_MAP_WorldsFair_1962.jpg

Photos

1. Unit8_LISTofHistoricPhotos

Predictions

1. Unit8_PREDICTIONS_ThresholdThreatScript
2. Unit8_PREDICTIONS_WorldofTomorrow

Public Records

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5. Unit8__PublicRecords_propertycards_320_2nd
6. Unit8_PropertyRecords_propertycard_315_3rd
7. Unit8_PublicRecords_ letter_dorothyisaacsdocs
8. Unit8_PublicRecords_demolitiondocs
9. Unit8_PublicRecords_eminentdomaindocs
10. Unit8_PublicRecords_GunderBirkeland.2.CM
11. Unit8_PublicRecords_GunderBirkeland
12. Unit8_PublicRecords_GunderBirkeland_3
13. Unit8_PublicRecords_mapsitechanges_1958
14. Unit8_PublicRecords_-obit_FrankJHart.JPG
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16. Unit8_PublicRecords_-propertycard_313_3rd.pdf
17. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycard_314_4th
18. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycard_323_3rd
19. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_120_4th
20. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_202_Republican
21. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_208_Thomas
22. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_209_Harrison
23. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_215_NobHil
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30. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_528_2nd
31. Unit8_PublicRecords_propertycards_530_2nd
32. Unit8_PublicRecords_ropertycards_321_5th
33. Unit8_PublicRecords_sermon_GunderBirkeland4
34. Unit8_Lesson3_PolkDirectories

Warren Avenue School

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8. Unit8_WarrenSchool_CourtReviewAsked
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10. Unit8_WarrenSchool_ExhibitSuggested
11. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-FarewllTour.png
12. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-FondFarewell.png
13. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-HeadQuits.pdf
14. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-HeadQuitstext.pdf
15. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-History_WAS_p2.pdf
16. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-HistoryWAS_p1.pdf
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18. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-PlanMovesAhead.png
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22. Unit8_WarrenSchool_PTAScouts.pdf
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24. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ReplacementValue_1-11-58.pdf
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26. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SaleProbable.pdf
27. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SiteEnlargedp2.pdf
28. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SiteEnlarged.pdf
29. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SiteEnlarged_p1.pdf
30. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SpasticChild.pdf
31. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-SpasticChild_p1.pdf
32. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-State.Acquires.png
33. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ToBeSold_p1.png
34. Unit8_WarrenSchool_-ToBeSold_p2.png

The Imagine curriculum is a project of The Next Fifty and was made possible with funding from Seattle Center Foundation and 4Culture. Additional in-kind support was provide by KCTS 9, HistoryLink.org, The Seattle Times Newspapers In Education, Jack Straw Productions, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Museum of History & Industry, Seattle Architectural Foundation, Bellevue Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Edmonds School District.