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How did they live?

How did they live?. Investigating how children in past times lived. Lesson Overview. This lesson is created for kindergarten students aged 5 and 6. DCPS Social Studies Standard:

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How did they live?

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  1. How did they live? Investigating how children in past times lived.

  2. Lesson Overview • This lesson is created for kindergarten students aged 5 and 6. • DCPS Social Studies Standard: • K.2. Broad Concept: Students describe the way people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today (e.g., getting water from a well, growing food, having fun). • In this lesson, students will investigate photos and other primary source artifacts which give them a sense of how children from the past lived and how they are similar/different from them.

  3. Did children in past centuries dress the same as we do now? Now

  4. Then Larger Picture

  5. Let’s Discuss • What are some of the ways the kids in the pictures are dressed the same? Why? • What are some ways they are dressed differently? Why?

  6. Did children have fun in the same ways? • Click on the following links to see how children in 1908 and 1909 enjoyed themselves. Back Then More Fun Then Fun Video • Do children today still do the things shown in those pictures?

  7. Did children do the same types of work? • A long time ago children had to work to earn money instead of just being a kid. Click the links below to see some of the things kids had to do to make money compared to what you might have to do at home. • Then: Kids on an Onion Farm • Now: Girl washing dishes • Would you have liked to have to work hard all day to help your family? Why or why not? • What types of work (chores)do you have at home?

  8. Let’s Review • Name three ways in which children from past centuries are like you. • Name three ways in which they are different. • Do you think it’s better to be a kid today or back then?

  9. The End

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