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Changing technology: Get your ice cream!
Students consider the impacts of changing technology over time by examining photographs related to ice cream.
Learning Intention
We are learning to:
- use historical sources to find out how technology has changed over time.
Success criteria
What I'm looking for:
- I can explain how changing technology shows that life in the present is different from or similar to the past.
Student Activities
Activity 1
Get your ice cream
Number of set tasks: 3
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K-10
Outcomes
A student:
- HT1-3 describes the effects of changing technology on people's lives over time
Historical skills
Students:
Comprehension: chronology, terms and concepts
- sequence familiar objects and events (ACHHS031, ACHHS047)
- distinguish between the past, present and future (ACHHS032, ACHHS048)
Use of sources
- explore a range of sources about the past (ACHHS034, ACHHS050)
- identify and compare features of objects from the past and present (ACHHS035, ACHHS051)
Perspectives
- explore a point of view within an historical concept (ACHHS036, ACHHS052)
Research
- Pose questions about the past using sources provided (ACHHS033, ACHHS049)
Explanation and communication
- use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written, role play) and digital technologies (ACHHS038, ACHHS054)
Historical concepts
- Continuity and change: some things change over time and others remain the same
- Cause and effect: events, decisions or developments in the past that produce later actions, results or effects
- Empathetic understanding: developing an understanding of another’s views, life and decisions made
LAC
Learning across the curriculum
- Literacy
Content
The impact of changing technology on people's lives (ACHHK046)
Students:
- identify examples of changing technologies in their home or community
- discuss the similarities and differences of technology from the past through a range of sources and sequence them over time
- use a range of communication forms to explain how one example of changing technology affected people's lives
Additional resources
Task 3
The advertisement for Harris Scarfe's Special Ice Chest appeared in The Mail (1932, October 29), p. 4 (Magazine Section). Thsi can be accessed via Trove.
Detailed information about the how ice was delivered in Australia can be found at the Dictionary of Sydney article, Sydney's First Ice.
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