Starter quiz
- In the past photography was ...
- slow. ✓
- quick.
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- In the past photography was ...
- cheap.
- expensive. ✓
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- Match the description of photography to the correct time.
- Nowadays⇔photography is cheaper and quicker ✓
- In the past⇔photography was slow and expensive ✓
- The ______ photograph was taken 200 years ago.
- last
- first ✓
- best
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- In the past, photographs had to be developed before you could see them.
- True ✓
- False
- A roll of plastic coated with chemicals that is used to develop photos is called ...
- a camera film. ✓
- a digital camera.
- a polaroid camera.
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Exit quiz
- An historian is someone who learns about ...
- rocks and earth.
- the past. ✓
- photographs.
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- Historians use photographs to learn about ...
- the future.
- the now.
- the past. ✓
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- In the past only wealthy people could afford photographs.
- True ✓
- False
- A portrait is ...
- a painting or photograph of a person or group of people. ✓
- a painting or photograph of an object or group of objects.
- a painting or photograph of a building or group of buildings.
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- By looking at family portraits from 140 years ago we can learn ...
- what clothes were fashionable at the time. ✓
- what peoples' names were at the time.
- what peoples' pastimes might have been. ✓
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- Match the word to its meaning.
- portrait⇔a painting or photograph of someone ✓
- pastime⇔something people like to do when not at work or school ✓
- fashionable⇔something that is popular to wear ✓
- wealthy⇔someone with lots of money ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Looking at a family portrait from 140 years ago can tell us a lot about that time.
- The number of children can tell us about the size of families.
- The clothes they are wearing can tell us about what was fashionable at the time.
- The objects in the photograph can tell us about their interests and pastimes.
Common misconception
That all families were the same 140 years ago and life was the same for everyone.
Explain that while the photograph gives us some clues to life in the past, just like now, all families were different.
Keywords
Portrait - a portrait is a painting or photograph of a person or people
Wealthy - people with lots of money or land are described as wealthy
Fashionable - something that is popular to wear can be described as fashionable
Pastimes - a pastime is a hobby that people enjoy doing outside of work or school
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