Then and Now #2: Housing Evolution

Making the cave

Since the children were intrigued with the houses from the past, I decided to explore more into the evolution of houses from the past to present. The children understand that early people used caves as shelter and as time passed, humans learned to build their own instead of searching for caves. However the time concept is still hard for the children to grasp so I showed pictures of early man's life (especially how they looked). Immediately they noticed that early people looked very different from people nowadays. Here are some of their comments:

Making a bone house

Molly: They look like gorillas.
Alfie: They're not wearing clothes!
Theo: They hunt.
Allye: The elephants have fur! (And this started a whole other conversation about woolly mammoth!)
Brendan: There are bone houses!
Angela: Bone houses? We don't live in bone houses.

Painting the display

Making the loghouse

Placing the caves

Currently the children are working on a 3D timeline of the housing evolution. The Water group is very eager to display their model so children from other groups can see how houses have changed from the past to present.