TOYS FROM THE PAST

1. You will be working in groups on this webquest. Click on TOYS OF THE PAST to see what kind of toys are in museums and how they may be different from toys of today.  There are lots of activities.  You can use the notepad as you go if you like.  You will each choose a toy to put into the toy museum and you will need to write the label for it.  Follow the instructions: name of toy, age, old or new?, information about special features or uses…

2. Click on BEDFORD BYTES – TOYS.  You need to click on PHOTOS OF TOYS and look at all the toys.  Try to imagine what they are and how they were used…   Then go to DESCRIBING TOYS ONLINE and do the activity. Apples start with LEVEL 1, Oranges and Pears you can do level 2 and Grapes you need to do LEVEL 3.  CHOOSE 1 – 2 TOYS to describe and PRINT OUT your final version to hand in.

When you are finished, write a comment telling us: the name of your favourite toy, what it is made from and what it does or what you can do with it.  Remember to sign your name to the comment.  🙂

Toys – Then and Now

We will be looking at the different toys that children played with long ago and today.  In Inquiry we have been learning about continuity and change in history, from the way the early settlers lived compared to today and now we will be looking at toys the same way.

Some of the questions we want to ask are:

  • How do we know about the past?
  • How do we know what toys children played with in the past?
  • How do we know what games children played in the past?
  • How do we find out about toys that are old?

My Grandmother’s Toy Box – picture story

We will be having a look at old Australian toys by clicking on the link below.

Old Australian Toys

One of the activities you will be doing on your own is placing the toys in order from the oldest toys to the most recent toys.  Click on the link below to order them.

Ordering Toys from Oldest to Most Recent