For the "today" of our time travel journey I chose to do Steampunk and artist trading cards since ATC's are a fairly recent trend. Steampunk just seems to be the logical choice for a week of time travel, don't you think? Steampunk is kind of a science fiction history mix; basically taking something modern or from "today" and making it look like it came from the steam engine era. It's also a literary movement influenced by the works of H.G. Wells. Artist Trading Cards are baseball card size pieces of art that you can trade with friends.
We put the two together and for the first card we had to draw an invention for a time machine. Then we drew whatever we wanted on other ones. I had the students stick to drawing supplies- markers, colored pencils, pastels, charcoal pencils.
You can buy trading card size paper or you can cut your paper into 21/2" X 31/2". It's a great way to use scraps of paper you might have (since art paper is not sold the same size as common photo picture frames you might have some occasional trimmings).
You can buy the pocket pages anywhere baseball cards or Pokemon cards or anywhere collector cards are sold. I found mine at Target in the same section as the cards and puzzles. This was fun and some kids made enough to fill a whole pocket page. Sadly, not a whole page of inventions; I loved seeing their ideas for inventions and time machines.
Don't forget you can trade them with your friends! :-)
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