Grade 3 · Social Studies · Lesson 22

Life in the Past vs Now

Life today looks very different from how people lived 100 or 200 years ago. The same basic tasks — communicating, traveling, farming, learning — are still part of life, but the ways people do them have changed dramatically.

What this lesson teaches

1Compare how people did things in the past with how they are done today
2Sort examples of daily tasks into the correct time period
3Explain the main drivers of change over time

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