Changes in Children's Lives

Over the past six weeks, the second grade students have been inquiring into how children's lives have changed over time. Throughout the course of the unit we focused on three main aspects of children's lives; life at home, at school and the games that they play.

Through stories, narratives of children from the past, as well as interviews with parents and grandparents, as well as a simulation of an "Old School" day, the students had the chance to see for themselves what school was like in the past.









As a Show and Tell activity, students brought in games or toys that their parents or grandparent had played with, as well as some of their own in order to contrast and compare, in order to see how toys have changed.










Students also did some research using topic related books about: Cooking and Eating, Homes Today and in the Past, Washing and Cleaning, Travel Then and Now, and Communication. Students then presented on those topics to the rest of the class.

For the end of the unit, each student chose one thing that has changed in the lives of children and created a mini-museum display and description about how it has changed. Together with students from Grade 1, we held the Mini-Museum in the Grade 2 classroom last Thursday and many classes came to check out our displays. Please look forward to more details about the Mini-Museum in the next post!