Comfort and Convenience
Comfort & Convenience Tour Description
8th grade, HS American History
This tour explores the advances in technology that exploded during the Gilded Age and how these can be seen at Reynolda. The tour connects to stories of Reynolda and includes most of the house.
Location: Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Available: year-round (Museum closed in January)
Accommodates: 8-48 people
90 minutes
$5 + tax per student
Learning objectives: Students who experience a Comfort & Convenience tour will be able to
- Find and discuss Gilded Age technologies in the Reynolds’s home and learn about these technological advances in the context of an early 20th-century North Carolina family
- Examine stories from oral histories that help contextualize technological influences on daily life
- Compare early 20th-century technologies with modern life
- Explain how innovation and technology contributed to change in North Carolina and the nation
NC Standard Course of Study Connections:
- Social Studies: 8.H.2 Understand how innovation and change have impacted the development of North Carolina and the nation.
- Social Studies: 8.H.2.1 Explain how innovation and technology have contributed to change in North Carolina and the nation.
- Social Studies: 8.H.2.2 Explain the influences of individuals and groups during times of innovation and change in North Carolina and the nation.
- Social Studies: 8.H.2.3 Explain how the experiences and achievements of women, minorities, indigenous, and marginalized groups have contributed to the development of North Carolina and the nation over time.
- Social Studies: AH.B.2.1 Differentiate among scientific and technological innovations in terms of how they have reinforced and redefined American values and beliefs.
Questions? Contact Julia Tanner, julia@reynolda.org