Now and Then - Understanding the Past and Present

This two week historical knowledge unit teaches children to compare and contrast everyday life in different times and places and recognize that some aspects of people, places, and things change over time while others stay the same (focusing on school, communication, transportation, and clothing).


This unit includes:
Vocabulary cards
Information cards – Black and white & color
Color, cut, & create booklets (differentiated)
Sorts (differentiated)
Literacy connected worksheets
Interactive notebook activities
Writing activities
Home-School Connection activities
Answer keys for applicable activities

Standards addressed in this unit:
-Understand history tells the story of people and events of other times and places.
-Examine the structure of schools in the past.
-Study transportation methods of earlier days.
-Recognize similarities and differences of earlier generations in dress and communication.
-Compare life now with life in the past

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