Our Community Long Ago
Children use photographs, stories, and artefacts to learn what their community looked like before they were born.
Key Questions
- 1What did our community look like before you were born?
- 2How can old photographs help us learn about the past?
- 3What buildings or places in our community are very old?
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Suggested Methodologies
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