Domestic life: oral history questionnaire

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.

• Images of domestic activities to order
• ‘Hunt the question’ game cards
• Question cards and activity cards

• Coloured card to write questions on

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