Lesson Planning
Children think about what questions to ask grandparents and great-grandparents in order to elicit good historical information.
Teaching Outcomes
To make a timeline of domestic life from great-grandparents’ era to current time.
To compose questions for older people about domestic life and day-to-day roles when they were children.
Children will:
- Sort photos of domestic activities and items into old and new and create a timeline.
- Compose questions to ask parents, grandparents and great-grandparents about day-to-day life when they were a child.