Idaho Social Studies 1.SS.1.1

Social Studies1st GradeHistory

The Standard

Compare differences in the ways families in the United States live today to how they lived in the past.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students look at pictures and listen to short accounts of family life in the United States, past and present. They name something families did in both times and one way daily life differed.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student sees one family washing clothes in a tub and another using a washer. They say both families clean clothes and point to the different tools.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think every family in the past lived the same way, or that every family today owns a washing machine. They may assume a black-and-white photo is old without checking its date.
How to Assess It: Show drawings of one family washing clothes in a tub in 1910 and another using a washer today. Ask, "What is the same? What is different? Point to a clue in each picture."

Lesson moves

Give students picture cards dated 1910 and today; have them match two families doing laundry and point to the tools each uses.
Show two dated kitchen photos and ask, "What are both families doing, and which cooking tools look different?"
Play picture-pair bingo with a 1920 streetcar card and a current bus card; students cover both when you call "travel."
Compare a 1940 grocery ad with this week's store flyer; students point to a food families could buy in both times.

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