Education Resources

Activity: Vocabulary and Concepts Unique to Pike Place Market
Description: Build vocabulary and analyze concepts, such as the “Meet the Producer” tradition, Daystall, consumer, busker, historical district and more.
Length: 30-45 minutes

• Market Words and Ideas
• Glossary of Market Words
• Market Vocabulary Worksheet
• Market Vocabulary Worksheet Answers
• Crossword Puzzle
• Market Jumble

 

Reading Assignment: November 30, 1907 Dedication Speech Reader’s Theater 
Description: Students read actual text of Seattle City Council member Thomas Revelle’s public dedication.
Length: 20 minutes
Download: Script [PDF]

Presentation: The Big Picture of the Pike Place Market
Description: An introduction to the history and many parts of Pike Place Market.
Length: 45 minutes

• The Big Picture of the Pike Place Market [PDF of Images]
• Script that corresponds with images

 

Online Game: What Do You Hear in the Market?
Description: Students practice listening skills and build familiarity with how our senses help create a unique sense of place, distinguishing the Market from other Seattle neighborhoods.
Length: 30 minutes

• Sounds Game – Identify what you hear! [Interactive]
• Worksheet for Sounds Game

 

Role Playing Activity: Join the Cause! How Victor Steinbrueck Helped Save the Market
Description: Students analyze and evaluate the importance of believing in a meaningful cause like saving the Pike Place Market from demolition. Students will role-play taking a stance, with half the class “for” and half the class “against.”
Length: 30 minutes

• Victor Steinbrueck, Tale of a Market Hero [Teacher Activity Guide]
  
• Sketches [PDF of 6 Drawings] from Market Sketchbook by Victor Steinbrueck (25th Anniversary Edition, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996. Used with permission.)

 

Lesson Plan: One Market For All
Description: An 8-page insert published in April 2017 by The Seattle Times in partnership with Newspapers in Education and 4Culture. Curriculum Guide features five lesson plans (for grades 3+):

• Immigration (key topic: social justice)
• Connecting Japanese Internment (and its Effects on the Market) Through Art (key topic: history and social justice)
• Linking the Past to the Future (key topics: civics, citizenship, social activism)
• How Many People Does it Take to Sell a Product? (key topic: entrepreneurship)
• Starting a Business: Brainstorming Your Talents and Creating a Business Plan (key topic: entrepreneurship)

Download:
One Market for All as a digital book
Curriculum Guide

 

Role Playing Activity: Create a Classroom Market
Description: Students become entrepreneurs by deciding what to sell other students, naming their businesses and determining how to produce their goods or services.
Key Concepts: Supply and demand, goods and services, business plans, currency.

 

Role Playing Activity: Create Jigsaw Groups at the Market
Description: Divide the class into four or five groups. Assign a Market topic to each group. Examples are international shops, service businesses, seafood, public art, Daystall vendors. Each group becomes the “expert” for their topic. Each student has a specific role; Photographer, interviewer, recorder, navigator are examples. Each group, with a chaperone, travels through the Market to research their topic. Back at school, each group shares what they learned with the entire class.
Key Concepts: Collaboration, public speaking

Activity: Through Many Lenses: Different Ways to See the Market
Description: Ask students what images and landmarks they recognize in the Market neighborhood in these artist renditions created for past Market celebrations.
Length: 30 minutes

• Market History Posters
• Posters 1 – 5 [PDF of Images]

Role Playing Activity: Join the Cause! How Victor Steinbrueck Helped Save the Market
Description: Students analyze and evaluate the importance of believing in a meaningful cause like saving the Pike Place Market from demolition. Students will role-play taking a stance, with half the class “for” and half the class “against.”
Length: 30 minutes

• Victor Steinbrueck, Tale of a Market Hero [Teacher Activity Guide]
• Sketches [PDF of 6 Drawings] from Market Sketchbook by Victor Steinbrueck (25th Anniversary Edition, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996. Used with permission.)