True or false: Walking is an ancient form of transportation
True!
100
What is communication?
Communication is sharing news and ideas.
100
Name one job that people could have long ago that they do not have today.
ice, milk delivery, etc.
100
What can you learn about people long ago when you look at a slate from an old school house?
there was no paper, if people made a mistake they didn't need a pink eraser like our pencils have, etc.....
100
Which monument was built to remember the 16th president?
Lincoln Memorial
200
True or False: People traveled in wagons before they traveled in cars.
True!
200
Name one way we can communicate today?
(email, texting, letters, etc)
200
Name a job we have today that they did not have long ago.
(any modern job)
200
What can you learn about people long ago when you look at an old fashioned iron?
people might have gotten burned more often or it took longer than today to do the ironing, people may have gotten tired out from the heavy iron, etc....
200
What monument was build to remember the president during the Civil War?
Lincoln Memorial
300
Put these forms of transportation in order from long ago to most recent: airplane, walking, car, wagon
walking, wagon, car, airplane
300
What is one way people communicated long ago?
Talking, telling stories, letters on the pony express, old fashioned telephones.
300
How did mail carriers deliver mail on the pony express?
They went from town to town and stopped at each station to sleep or trade horses. They traveled through wind rain, bad weather and hot sun!
300
What can you learn about people long ago when you look at an old wagon that was covered and pulled by horses?
no cars or trains, getting from one place to another was slow, horses could have to stop and rest and people would have to be patient and wait, etc....
300
Which monument was built to remember the first president who was also in the Revolutionary War?
Washington Monument
400
What is transportation?
How people get from one place to another.
400
What is one reason people invent new forms of communication?
to be faster, talk to more than one person at one time, to make it easier to communicate, etc
400
Name how a mail carriers job today is different from long ago?
travel in cars and not on horses, etc
400
What can you learn about people long ago when you look at an old fashioned ink well and feather pen?
(could have been messy if the ink spilled, if you ran out of ink, you had to wait to get it filled, no pencils or pens like we buy at the store, etc...)
400
Which monument helps us to remember the writer of the Declaration of Independence?
Jefferson Memorial
500
What is one reason why people may have invented electric trains when they could travel on steam trains?
They could travel quicker if they invented electric trains. Travel on an electric train may be easier than a steam train.
500
How is a mail carriers job the same as long ago?
carry letters, packages, mail bags, etc
500
What can you learn about people long ago when you look at a washboard?
The laundry would take a while to do, you couldn't do something at the same time as you were doing laundry, etc....