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What game is this?
Student activities
Task no. 1
What game is this?
Look carefully at the collection of photos of games and activities from the past and answer questions
- What is this game?
- Have you ever played this game?
- What are the rules?
- Do you like the game?
Children at play, Dalwood Homes, Balgowlah, 1941
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Ruby Gostelow (6 yrs old) playing "Barbie" computer game, Late 2002 - 25 Dec. 2003
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Children playing quoits at the Katoomba Coffee Palace, 1906
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Pinning the tail on the donkey at Australian Paper Mills picnic at Clifton Gardens, 13 March 1935
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Wallsend South School, 29/5/1957
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Schoolboys playing cricket, 9/2/1935
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Holidays: children in the park, 11/5/1935
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Task no. 2

Are these games still played now?
Look at the photos and see if you can find out which games are still played now?
Use the downloadable resource to answer these questions.