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Whose shoes?
Content summary
We are learning to:
- use historical sources to decide how the present is different from or similar to the past.
Success criteria
What I'm looking for:
- I can explain how these shoes show that life in the present is different from or similar to the past.
Student Activities
Activity 1
Whose shoes?
Activity 2
Captain Cook's shoe buckles
NSW syllabus for the Australian curriculum
Outcomes
A student:
- HT1-4 demonstrates skills of historical inquiry and communication
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 and use a range of sources about the past (ACHHS034, ACHHS050)
- identify and compare features of objects from the past and present (ACHHS035, ACHHS051)
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 (ACHHS03, ACHHS054)
Historical concepts
- Continuity and change: some things change over time and others remain the same
- Empathetic understanding: developing an understanding of another’s views, life and decisions made
- Significance: importance of an event, development or individual/group
LAC
Learning across the curriculum
- Critical and creative thinking
- Literacy
Content
How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating time such as ‘a long time ago’, ‘then and now’, ‘now and then’, ‘old and new’, ‘tomorrow’, as well as by dates and changes that may have personal significance, such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons (ACHASSK029)
Students:
• define and use terms relating to time, sequencing objects or photographs from the past
ACTIVITY NOTES FOR TEACHERS
Activity 1
Ask students to:
- Work in pairs or groups.
- Look at each pair of shoes and discuss their ideas about the shoes in each photo.
- Answer the question; who wore these shoes?
- Give reasons for their conclusion.
- Use words relating to time, such as now, past and present, a long time ago to describe when these shoes were worn.
- Extend their thinking by deciding which shoes are the oldest and giving the reasons for their decision.
Activity 2
Captain Cook's shoe buckles
These buckles clipped onto the top of Captain Cook’s shoe. Cook wore these buckles on his shoes when he was presented to King George III of England in 1775.
Ask students to:
- Draw a design for the shoe that Captain Cook wore when he met the King.
- Include the shoe buckles in the design.
- Remember that the design has to suit the person and the time (over 200 years ago)
- Write words to describe the colour of the shoe and the material of the shoe
For more information about the life and career of Captain James Cook, see the article on him by The Australian Dictionary of Biography.