Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

What Did People Wear?

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

K

Overview

In this reading passage, students will read about the way people dressed in the past. Long ago, the United States was new. The early Americans made their own clothes. They had to sew them by hand.

A vocabulary activity and question set are included with the reading passage. 

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): KG

    SS10.K.12

    Describe families and communities of the past, including jobs, education, transportation, communication, and recreation.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.K.12

    Vocabulary

    • community
    • family
    • transportation
    • communication
    • recreation
    • long ago

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Families and communities of today participate in many of the same activities that families and communities of the past participate in.
    • Some aspects of family and community ways of life have changed over time while others have remained the same or similar.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Name various jobs performed by family and community members in the past and present.
    • Describe the ways schools, communication, transportation, and recreation of the past are similar and different to the ways of today.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There are many similarities and differences between the ways people lived in the past and the ways we live today.
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