Curriculum: Present Meets Past: A Guide to Exploring Community History, Volume I – All About Me


Page 1		 Description: Students personalize their study of local history by exploring various ethnic, racial, and cultural groups within their community; gaining an understanding and tolerance of differences; and developing a sense of the place of everyday people like themselves in our cultural heritage.

Learning goals:

  • Chapter 1 – construct a framework to understand the passage of time
  • Chapter 2 – identify events in our personal and family history, compare the daily activities of children in the past with personal experiences, and develop constructive attitudes toward diversity
  • Chapter 3 – identify the variety of foods in the local community
  • Chapter 4 – compare clothing of the past with clothing today, identify reasons for specific modes of dress, and identify the effects of technology on dress
  • Chapter 5 – draw inferences about ourselves from the artifacts of the present and past
  • Chapter 6 – compare games and amusements of the past with those today and identify the effect of technology on leisure activities
  • Chapter 7 – compare health care in the past and now, and identify customs or traditions that we share with people in the past
  • Chapter 8 – gather family holiday customs and identify shared customs in our community and those that are unfamiliar yet a part of American culture

Publication date: 1986

Number of pages: 94

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