Shops and shopping over the past 100 years

In this session, children will examine through role-play how shopping has changed over time and continues to change.

Teaching Outcomes
To sort images of shops and key shopping developments into historical eras.
To role play shopping in various eras.

Children will:

• Sort images and key development statements of shops according to their era.
• Match fictional shopping surveys to characters from different eras.
• Role play shopping for when their great grandparents, grandparents and parents were children, as well as modern day shopping.

• Images of shops over the past 100 years
• Key developments in shopping cards
• Fictional shopping surveys
• Props for shops role play starter list

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Explore a store of the past from sainsburyarchive.org.uk
The first self-service food store in the UK from sainsburyarchive.org.uk
The life of a delivery boy in 1912 from sainsburyarchive.org.uk