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Year 1 History · Family life then and now

Name: ______________________

Date: ____________

1. What does 'change' mean in history?
- ☐ (a) Something stays exactly the same
- ☐ (b) Something becomes different over time
- ☐ (c) Money you get back at a shop
- ☐ (d) A type of game
2. Which of these is something families still do today, just like in the past?
- ☐ (a) Share meals together
- ☐ (b) Use only wall phones
- ☐ (c) Have no electricity at all
- ☐ (d) Write only with quill pens
3. Which is the best way to find out what life was like when your grandparents were young?
- ☐ (a) Guess
- ☐ (b) Ask your grandparents or an older person
- ☐ (c) Look at tomorrow's weather
- ☐ (d) Count your toys
4. Which item is newer?
- ☐ (a) A typewriter
- ☐ (b) A wall phone with a dial
- ☐ (c) A tablet computer
- ☐ (d) A record player
5. When something stays the same over time, historians call it…
- ☐ (a) change
- ☐ (b) technology
- ☐ (c) a routine
- ☐ (d) continuity
6. Your parents, you, and your grandparents each belong to a different ____. (one word starting with 'g')
7. Tools and machines people make to help them are called ____.
8. Old photos, objects and stories that tell us about the past are called ____.

Answer sheet

1. Something becomes different over time — In history, change means something has become different over time.
2. Share meals together — Sharing meals is something families did in the past and still do today.
3. Ask your grandparents or an older person — People who lived in the past can tell us about it.
4. A tablet computer — Tablet computers are much newer than the other items.
5. continuity — Continuity means something has stayed the same.
6. generation — A generation is a group of people born around the same time.
7. technology — Technology is the tools and machines people make.
8. sources — Historians call these clues sources.