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Students complete Task 1 and/or Task 2. In Task 1, students make a 'What am I?' quiz in Microsoft PowerPoint. In Task 2, they conduct an oral history interview with an older family member about home life when they were young.

Task 1

Ask students to view a collection of household objects from the present and the past.

Students play an 'I Spy' type game. A student chooses an object and describes it. The student might, for example, choose a mix master and say, 'I spy with my little eye an object that is new and shiny white. It is powered by electricity'. Other students identify the object or ask questions to gain further information.

Students make a PowerPoint presentation, 'What am I?' They describe an object from the 'At home' Gallery giving one clue on each slide and revealing the object through text and a photograph on the final slide.

To organise their presentations students could follow this model:

Slide 1: What am I?

Slide 2: First clue, I am made from wood.

Slide 3: Second clue, I am light brown.

Slide 4: Third clue, I have a slit up the middle.

Slide 5: Fourth clue, I hold things on a line.

Slide 6: Reveal the object using text and a photograph from the 'At home' Gallery. I am an old clothes peg.

Ask students to share their What am I? quiz with other members of the class. This might be in small groups or as a whole class.

An old clothes peg

Task 2