About this resource

This resource supports the Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) history syllabus topics Present and past family life and The past in the present.

The resource draws on the collection of the NSW Schoolhouse Museum to develop understandings of ways of past everyday life in the context of school and schooling. It develops skills in using primary sources to learn about the past.

It has been developed to support remote learning for schools who are unable to visit the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education due to their location or restrictions on excursions.

History K-10 syllabus links

Outcomes

HT1-1 communicates an understanding of change and continuity in family life using appropriate historical terms

HT1-3 describes the effects of changing technology on people's lives over time

HT1-4 demonstrates skills of historical inquiry and communication

Historical concepts and skills

Use of sources, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathetic understanding, significance

Present and Past Family Life

Differences and similarities between students’ daily lives and life during their parents’ or grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications (ACHHK030)

• Discuss similarities and differences from generation to generation, e.g. family celebrations and traditions, leisure activities and changes in technology/communication over time through a range of sources
• Compare and contrast daily life with that of parents and grandparents at the same age through stories or photographs and pose questions to ask parents/grandparents

How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating time such as ‘a long time ago’, ‘then and now’, ‘now and then’, ‘old and new’, ‘tomorrow’, as well as by dates and changes that may have personal significance, such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons (ACHHK029)

• Define and use terms relating to time, sequencing objects or photographs from the past, e.g. then and now, past and present, a long time ago

The Past in the Present

The impact of changing technology on people’s lives (ACHHK046)

• Identify examples of changing technologies in their home or community
• Discuss the similarities and difference of technology from the past through a range of sources and sequence them over time