Task
Long Ago Vs. Today
You are a time traveler. Your job is to go back in time and investigate school life, technology, food, and games from the 1800's and early 1900's.
You will use a variety of time traveler tools such as the internet and venn diagrams to help you gather data about the past.
Process
1.First, You will select a topic that you would like to investigate while traveling back in time.
Topics:
Technology, School, Food, Games
2. Next, you will gather the tools you need to collect data and information.
Tools: A venn Diagram or a notebook, compare and contrast frames.
3. Then, you will need to select the appropriate time travel websites that match your topic.
4. As you exlore different times zones that match your topic, you will need to collect data about how your topic is different and similar to our life today.
5. Finally, you need to write a report (1 paragraph) comparing and contrasting how your topic is similar and different to today.
Got your tools? Great! Let's pick your topic. THis is the area you want to go back in time to investigate.
You can choose from: techonology, food, school and games.
Got your topic! Great, enter the correct time machine below:
You may have to visit more than one site to get all the information you need.
Technology
Inventions: Interactive Timeline
http://web.archive.org/web/20080709054044/http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html-scroll the timeline to the 1800's and investigate times after that.
Inventions: History of the Washing Machine
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-the-washing-machine
Inventions: History of the Computer
https://www.hstry.co/timelines/technology-past-present-future
Inventions: History of Sound and T.V.
Inventions: Vidoe of a History of Transportation
http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/an-animated-history-of-transportation-through-the-centuries
School
Video: School, then and now? What are some of the biggest changes you can see?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q3uUckUaQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7H9wtZO8nM
What school was like in the pioneer days in Nebraska. Many other states had similiar experiences.
School: What a schoolhouse was like in the early 1900's
http://www.growingseasons.com/Growing_Seasons/Schoolhouse_Pages.html
Website that explains what school was like in the 1900's
http://www.growingseasons.com/Growing_Seasons/School_Days.html
https://lhfkidsblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/time-for-school/
Food
Website about shopping and how families got food in the early 1900's
http://www.growingseasons.com/Growing_Seasons/Shopping_in_Rural_Areas.html
http://www.growingseasons.com/Growing_Seasons/Gardening.html
If you needed something and you couldn't grow it, you might travel to a strore like this one.
https://lhfkidsblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/shopping-trip/
If you didn't have a refridgerator, how did you keep your food from rotting?
Find out here.
https://lhfkidsblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/winter-food-for-the-pioneers/