SOCIAL STUDIESPAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Past, Present, Future

•Difference between past, present, future

•Use family and school events

•Historical records and artifacts

• Compare life today with past

PAST

• These events ALREADY have happened

• Example: Kindergarten graduation

• Your last birthday

PRESENT• This is happening right now

• Example: Me giving this presentation

• You paying attention to this presentation

FUTURE•Has not happened yet

•Next Christmas

• You next birthday

FAMILY•What activities have you done in the past?

• Family vacations?

• This will help understand the concept

SCHOOL•Do you remember activities from school last year?

• Field trips?

• Field day?

HISTORICAL RECORDS• Ask your family about their past

•Old albums

• Birth certificates

ARTIFACT• An artifact is an object

• Items from your grandparents?

• Something special they gave your family

BRING IN AN ARTIFACT AND

SHARE YOUR STORY!

ARTIFACT• Pick out something special

• Ask your parents for help

• Try to make it something from the past

• Is there a story behind it?

PRESENT/PAST• Today has changed from years before us

• People lived their lives differently

HOW?• They did different activities

•Wore different clothes

•Watched different cartoons

•Drove different cars

ASK YOUR FAMILY• Ask how life has changed

• Ask aunt, uncles, grandparents, etc.

•When they were in first grade

•Many things are the same

•Not everything has changed

•What do you thinks the same?

Work cited

• simminch, “Iraqi children sit in their classroom”, October 23, 2009, via flickr, creative commons attribution

• aussiegall, “Its Future is in our Hands - Live Earth”, July 8, 2007, via flickr, creative commons attribution

• Michael 1952 “SJSA Grade Six – The year I rebelled”, June 6, 2010, via flickr, creative commons attribution