Students need to learn about history. What happened on a certain date? Who was involved? What is the significance of the instance? True, this is important to know, but what if your Past and Present lesson took a turn in a new direction….

What if your students learned about what happened on the day they were born? The day their parents, or even grandparents were born? How different was life way back when their elder was a child?

Time Capsule gives the student the opportunity to do this. They can type in a date and find out top headlines, top songs, prices of popular items, current President and Vice President, popular books-toys-shows, award winners and famous people born on this date.

Let’s take this lesson one step further. This could be a start of a great research project. Have the students select a show or toy that they never heard of.  From here, they would could find out the use or premise of it, why it was popular, if someone in their family enjoyed it, etc.

Take a step away from the traditional route of research projects and learn about what once was. Besides this project meeting needs of research and writing, it could also lead to primary interviews of people who once loved those items-as well as be a great beginning to fabulous conversations with the child’s elders.