Showing posts with label primary sources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label primary sources. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2015

Summer at Museums: Tractor Museum


Are you collecting extraordinary facts, pictures that describe the year of your birth, famous birthdays, astrological compatibilities, songs, movies and books written on that significant year?

If you are born between 1860  and 1973, you will find a tractor created on the year of your birth, and a picture of it will make your anthology unique!  Younger people will like an hour tour to not only see old technology but also learn about agriculture in Israel.

My advice: visit Tractor Museum, Ein Vered, Sharon (15 min drive from school),  when it's not very hot.

Summer at Museums: Haifa Train Museum.

Visiting museums is one of the highly recommended activities for summer breaks.
Museums are both entertaining and edifying, and kids like to explore every corner of it.


Train Museum in Haifa presents history of trains in Israel. It is full of primary sources.

This cattle car made me shiver when I pictured Jewish people being forced away from their homes and transported by freight trains in Europe after1933.














We discovered two walls of train tickets and ID cards of people working in the Israeli train system in all times.

The notice of the right that warns citizens not to take fruit and vegetable south of Zichron Yaakov lead us to a mini puzzle solving about the place of our home town.