Take your students on a trip back in history
The Virtual Flint Sit-Down Strike Learning Experience
It’s December 30, 1936, in Flint, Michigan. You take your usual spot in the General Motors Plant Number One, except this time you sit down on the grimy, cold concrete along with hundreds of other workers. You’re officially a part of what some historians refer to as “the strike heard ‘round the world.”
Take your students on a trip back in history
Michigan Virtual has partnered with the Michigan History Center to launch the virtual Flint Sit-Down Strike learning experience. Take your students (grades 7-12) on an immersive trip back to the United States' first major auto industry labor dispute. Using a Problem-Based Learning model, students will analyze primary source documents while learning about a significant moment in Michigan history.
This learning experience includes...
Module 1: Child Labor
Module 2: The Governors
Module 3: The Great Depression
Module 4: Sit-Down Strike
How to implement
Educators can implement this learning experience through their LMS or Google Classroom. It’s structured in such a way that teachers can use the content in blended learning. At the end of each module, students are provided with discussion questions.
The Flint Sit-Down Strike learning experience was made possible through the Archives of Michigan and is the culmination of several years of research and observation about a new direction in history education.
Enroll in the virtual Flint Sit-Down Strike learning experience
We are in the process of making updates to this experience. Please check back soon for more information or email ClarkR@michigan.gov for more details.
We are in the process of making updates to this experience. Please check back soon for more information or email ClarkR@michigan.gov for more details.