Michigan Time Traveler-Kids' History

The Michigan Time Traveler featured Michigan history topics for kids in a fun and lively newspaper page that appeared monthly in the Lansing State Journal. The Michigan Historical Center produced the Michigan Time Traveler for Lansing Newspapers in Education, Inc.

This page lists the topic and publication date of each Michigan Time Traveler edition in 2001. The newspaper pages are not available, but we have provided links, where possible, to online pages. The teacher's guides are in PDF format, Adobe Acrobat Reader required.

Teacher's guides include discussion questions and classroom activities. Some online guides include "bonus" resource pages. Guides with full-page images, such as maps and photos, will take longer to download.

• Kids at Fayette. What did kids find to do in this industrial Upper Peninsula company town between 1867 and 1891? (December 12, 2001)
  • December alternate content: Kids at Fayette exhibit online tour
  • December teacher's guide
• Kids on the WWII Home Front. How did kids help the Red Cross, the scrap drives, selling bonds? What is patriotism? (November 14, 2001)
  • November online pages
  • November teacher's guide
• What's Cool About Maps? What differences can you find between Michigan in 1839 and now? Create your own map of Michigan. (October 10, 2001)
  • October alternate content: What's Cool About Maps exhibit online tour
  • October teacher's guide
• Travel-1840 Style. What was it like to travel on the old Chicago Road and stop at Walker Tavern during Michigan's settlement era? (September 12, 2001)
  • September online pages
  • September teacher's guide
• Mining in Michigan. Go underground into an 1860s mine in the Upper Peninsula. (August 8, 2001)
  • August online pages
  • August teacher's guide
• Detroit-Before the Motor Car. Transportation in Detroit's first 200 years-canoes, French carts, schooners and streetcars-and a map activity. (July 11, 2001)
  • July online pages
  • July teacher's guide
• Timber! The lumberjack's life and Michigan logging history. (June 13, 2001)
  • June teacher's guide
• A Summer in Time. Seasonal activities and technology of early Native Americans. (May 9, 2001)
  • May online pages
  • May teacher's guide
• Say "Ahh!" The ague, the flu, polio and other diseases in Michigan history. (April 11, 2001)
  • April teacher's guide
• Newspapers-A Good Read! Newspaper carriers, Michigan's early newspapers and using newspapers as primary and secondary sources. (March 14, 2001)
  • March online pages
  • March teacher's guide
• Civil Rights. Real civil rights heroes in Michigan. (February 14, 2001)
  • February teacher's guide
• Celebrate Statehood. How Michigan became a state, January 26, 1837. (January 10, 2001)
  • January online pages
  • January teacher's guide

Updated 01/07/2005