Time Continuity and Change
Activities for the Classroom:
1. Students will compare and contrast a typical day in school to a school day in a different time period.
2. Students will play westward expansion game and complete a short write up/reflection about the journey of Lewis and Clark and what it was like:
https://docs.google.com/a/samford.edu/file/d/0BwivNcO0Yu1RRkZNUzdiaG5rMVU/edit
Oregon trial game:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Oregon-Trail-Interactive-Activity-Game-and-Lessons-69766
3. Students will learn about technology in the past- students will create an advertisement for one of the inventions as it might have appeared in a print or a television ad in that time period.
4. Students will pick a spot in town and compare it to the same spot years ago. Students will discuss what has changed and what has stayed the same.
5. Students will create an illustration of what they think their town will look like in 20 years.
6. Students will read about street or outside games played in the past and how the games originated. Students will then teach other class members how to play the games. Students will go outside and play the games children played in the past.
7. Students will write a journal entry with a quill pen and write about a typical day in their town including details about what they wore, what they did in school
8. Student will crate a timeline- They will listen to stories about people and events from different periods in history. For each story the children will draw a small picture that represents the main idea in each story. Then they will glue the picture to the appropriate time segment in their timeline. The teacher will lead a discussion discussion explores students’ observations about the similarities and differences in the timeframes, events, people, and behaviors.
9. Students will be asked to gather, retell, listen to, and compare their own and each other’s family history stories. They will locate the events in time and place and categorize the stories, or aspects of each story, as examples of time continuity and/or change.
Activities for the Classroom:
1. Students will compare and contrast a typical day in school to a school day in a different time period.
2. Students will play westward expansion game and complete a short write up/reflection about the journey of Lewis and Clark and what it was like:
https://docs.google.com/a/samford.edu/file/d/0BwivNcO0Yu1RRkZNUzdiaG5rMVU/edit
Oregon trial game:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Oregon-Trail-Interactive-Activity-Game-and-Lessons-69766
3. Students will learn about technology in the past- students will create an advertisement for one of the inventions as it might have appeared in a print or a television ad in that time period.
4. Students will pick a spot in town and compare it to the same spot years ago. Students will discuss what has changed and what has stayed the same.
5. Students will create an illustration of what they think their town will look like in 20 years.
6. Students will read about street or outside games played in the past and how the games originated. Students will then teach other class members how to play the games. Students will go outside and play the games children played in the past.
7. Students will write a journal entry with a quill pen and write about a typical day in their town including details about what they wore, what they did in school
8. Student will crate a timeline- They will listen to stories about people and events from different periods in history. For each story the children will draw a small picture that represents the main idea in each story. Then they will glue the picture to the appropriate time segment in their timeline. The teacher will lead a discussion discussion explores students’ observations about the similarities and differences in the timeframes, events, people, and behaviors.
9. Students will be asked to gather, retell, listen to, and compare their own and each other’s family history stories. They will locate the events in time and place and categorize the stories, or aspects of each story, as examples of time continuity and/or change.