{"content":[{"text":"Grade 2-3 Lesson: Clues to the Past (Part 1)","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.089056,"width":0.368216,"height":0.020985000000000004}},{"text":"Knowledge: Awareness of History, Vocabulary, Good Citizenship, Self-Awareness \n Skills: Listening, Comparison, Inductive Reasoning","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.123904,"width":0.686233,"height":0.03829600000000001}},{"text":"1. For homework, ask students to talk to an older person about their past. Ask them to \n discover at least one thing that is different today from when the older person was a child.","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.175624,"width":0.6963340000000001,"height":0.037788000000000016}},{"text":"2. In class, make a list of what the children discovered from their interviews. \n Discuss how a home, classroom, shopping area might have looked different in past times.","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.228048,"width":0.701938,"height":0.037510000000000016}},{"text":"3. List some ways to learn about the past. \n Talk to older people. \n Look at old photographs. \n Explore things that people used in the past. \n Visit a museum. \n Books and newspapers.","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.280194,"width":0.395945,"height":0.10752300000000004}},{"text":"4. Introduce words archeologist, artifact, and excavate. \n Archeologist: a person who learns about past times by looking at the things \n people made and used. \n Artifact: anything made, changed, or used by people. \n Archeologists study artifacts to learn about the past. \n Archeologists sometimes excavate to find the things people left behind long ago. \n Excavate means to dig very carefully, so that you know exactly where everything came \n from. Archeologists go to college to learn how to excavate the right way. When the find \n artifacts, they study them and then place them in a museum or return them to an Indian \n tribe that is related to the ancient people who made the artifacts long ago. Archeologists \n are looking for information, not just objects.","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.402354,"width":0.6927000000000001,"height":0.194504}},{"text":"5. Ask each child to choose an artifact from their own time. This could be something \n from their desk, an article of clothing, something from their pocket, etc. Talk about what \n these items can tell you about how people live today.","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.611495,"width":0.693648,"height":0.05509799999999998}},{"text":"Examples: book--people use written words to communicate \n Hair band--people care about how they look \n Coin--people use money to get the things they need or want \n Candy bar--people can buy food that is ready to eat","bbox":{"left":0.205964,"top":0.68123,"width":0.5266409999999999,"height":0.07235800000000003}},{"text":"6. Do “Puzzle Pieces” matching sheet. \n Discuss how people’s lives were different in the past.","bbox":{"left":0.147137,"top":0.770678,"width":0.41858800000000007,"height":0.034353999999999996}},{"text":"Examples: People used horses for transportation, instead of cars. \n People grew and prepared their own food, instead of buying ready- \n to-eat food. \n People made their own tools and dishes.","bbox":{"left":0.26482,"top":0.820687,"width":0.5836380000000001,"height":0.07232799999999995}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}