Lesson Planning
Children interview parents, grandparents and great-grandparents about changes in tasks and roles in and around the house. Children then write diary entries.
Teaching Outcomes
To identify fashions and style trends from various eras.
To paint a portrait of a relative as a child or young adult.
Children will:
- Organise a range of diary entries by era, according to the day-to-day roles and activities described in them.
- Interview a great-grandparent, grandparent and parent in class about domestic activities when they were children, and the roles different members of their families had.
- Write a diary entry about domestic roles from an historic era.