Comparing Childhoods Assessment Task
This assessment task has been designed to use at the conclusion of the Childhood: Then and Now unit. It allows students to make comparisons between their own childhood and those childhoods from past generations.
Students can use the information gathered from their relative interview or the information presented throughout the unit.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand the differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods.
- We are learning to understand how the past, present and future are signified by time, some of which have personal significance.
Curriculum alignment
AC9HS1K02
9
Continuity and change between aspects of their daily lives and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods
ACHASSK030
8.4
Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods
ACHASSK029
8.4
How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating time, as well as by dates and changes that may have personal significance, such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons
VCHHK061
Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and perspectives of life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications
VCHHK060
How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating and describing time
VCHHC055
Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present
VCHHC054
Identify the content features of primary sources when describing the significance of people, places or events
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Complete the Part A Venn diagram sheet only.
Extensions
Use the Part B sheet where students will give explanations about the comparisons they have made.