Extension Activities Children could visit a real museum before or after setting up their own old fashioned kitchen. Make a museum display where an object from the past stands beside its modern day equivalent. Get the children to make labels and captions for the objects. Children could make their own books about life in these times and put them on display. They could make a time line and stick on pictures of household objects used now, when their parents were small, their grandparents were small and before.
Many museums have displays of home life through previous generations.
There are also those where children can actually dress up and play the part of people in the past using the museum's artefacts. Visit an online museum to see artefacts from the past. Use a word processing package to make captions and labels for objects on display. Teacher Factfile None available.