Kindergarten • Social Studies
Long Ago & Me
Explore personal change, sources that help us learn about long ago, then-and-now objects, and similarities and differences between classrooms past and present.
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Preview and download each of the 4 worksheet pages.
When I Was Little
How Do We Learn About Long Ago?
Then & Now
A School Day Long Ago
Learning focus
- Use photos, stories, saved objects, and familiar examples to describe how people and places change over time.
- Compare life long ago with life today while recognizing that some older tools and traditions are still used.
Resource details
- Grade
- Kindergarten
- Subject
- Social Studies
- Topic
- History
- Skills
- Long Ago & Me
- Pages
- 4
For adults
Talk through each page before your child draws, matches, or circles. For the scored activities, page 2 answers are old photo, saved things, and story; page 3 matches candle to lamp, horse and carriage to car, and letter to phone; page 4 answers are SAME, DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT. Remind children that letters and candles are still used today, even though many people also use phones and electric lamps.