Families: Then and Now: Home

Six videos and accompanying teacher notes and classroom activities on six historical objects in the National Museum of Australia.

From the National Museum of Australia, three sets of historical images about food and family, with teacher notes.

Visit Scootle for the learning objects that are associated with this topic.

• Differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time
• How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating time such as ‘a long time ago’, ‘then and now’, ‘now and then’, ‘old and new’, ‘tomorrow’, as well as by dates and changes that may have personal significance, such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons
• Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications.

from Education Services Australia

• What's for lunch on the first day of school?
• In the past: Christmas at a bush school
• Cooking food in the past and present
• Sydney Doll Hospital: See what dolls looked like in the past
• First day jitters: What was the first day of school like for your parents?
• Bell's gone!: What was school pick up time like in 1974?
• Candles, cards and carols: Christmas in 1983
• In the past: Christmas in the city
• School in the 1940s
• Visit a restored 19th century cottage
• Twinkle, twinkle little ducks: School in the 1970s
• Playgrounds, billycarts and hot rods

Find out what family life, education and fashion were like in the Victorian era.