Old Fashioned Toy Instructions – Thaumatrope
This colourful and simple-to-follow instructional text can be easily followed by students to create their own thaumatrope animation toy. There are also printable templates available for children to colour or design their own. The resource has been designed to use as part of the Childhood: Then and Now Unit.
The resource could also be used in literacy lessons when teaching instructional texts.
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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
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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
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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.