Time Machine

Introduction

Wow!  Who wants to travel back in time to see what life was like 100 years ago????? Do you want to see what schools looked like? What toys kids played with or what clothes they wore?

You do!  Great!  Your team can join us for this great adventure!

Let's get started! Click on the task bar so you will know what we are working on!

Task

Time Machine Tasks

  • Take turns using technology.
  • Compare and contrast our school to a school 100 years ago.
  • Share changes in clothing from 100 years ago until today.
  • Explore what games children played 100 years ago.

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You will use:

  • techonology - computers/laptops
  • graphic organizers - Venn Diagrams/T-charts
  • videos
  • class camera
Process

[video:http://youtu.be/8aWyT_H2WuA]

Activity 1

  • Watch this video on a one-room school house in Ohio.
  • Look at this website full of pictures of schools 100 years ago. 

Go to this site about a One Room School House.

  • Go to Google Slides - T-Chart  
  • Save a copy of the T-Chart. Fill out the T-chart comparing and contrasting Brussels American School to schools 100 years ago.

Activity 2

  • Go to the following site that is an advertisement for toys from the early 1900s.
  • Look at the picture at the top of the page.  Look at the toys the children are holding.  
  • Go to Google slides and get this T-Chart graphic organizer.  Save a copy to your google drive and complete.
  • Look at the collection of toys Ms. Friedhoff has on the window sill in the class library.  Select and play with one toy.  
  • Find a friend to have a discussion about the toys - what you like, what you don't like, how they compare to what you have at home. We will talk about these as a whole group later.

Activity 3

  •  Let's search what clothes children wore 100 years ago.  Go to this Custom Search - search for images only of children's clothing from 100 years ago.
  • Print the picture.
  • Ask Ms. Friedhoff for class camera.  Take a photo of each partner.
  • Ms. Friedhoff will print off your picture you took.
  • Glue down each picture to a piece of paper.
  • Note the differences about the clothes - write notes on the photos.
Evaluation

Time Machine Rubric

Participation

Venn Diagram

Toy T-Chart

Clothes Comparison

3

Took turns working with technology. Shared workload equally.  Used great first grade manners with partner.

Gave 3 examples in each area of the Venn Diagram. Venn diagram was neatly done.

Compared the "old" toys to modern examples.  Gave more than one example.  Wrote neatly.

Took photo of both team members.  Labeled both modern and old photos with at least 3 examples of differences.

2

Most of the time used teamwork to accomplish tasks.  

Gave 2 examples in each area of the Venn Diagram.

Gave only one example.

Labeled photos with only 2 examples.


1

Did not share or use teamwork to accomplish tasks.

Gave 1 or less examples in each area of the Venn Diagram.

Did not give any examples.

Labeled photos with only 1 example.
Conclusion

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I hope you have had fun traveling back in time and learning about life 100 years ago.  It is interesting to see how things have changed over time.  If you want to see more videos on the topic, please see the videos on this page.

 Ms. Friedhoff

DoDEA Standards:

1SS3.a Examine structure of schools and communities in the past and present and describe how they have changed or stayed the same.

1SS3.c Discuss the similarities and differences of earlier differences of earlier generations in such areas as work, dress, manners, stories, games, and celebrations, drawing from biographies, oral histories, and folklore.

Credits

Thank you to the websites and videos that I used to make this webquest.  They are all such awesome tools to help students to better understand their world today!

Thank you YouTube, Brooklynkids.org, mmrsgebaeur.com, fashionahundredyearsago.com!

Teacher Page

I hope all my first graders had a great time learning about our world 100 years ago!  Thanks for traveling along with us!  Happy learning!

Ms. Friedhoff