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Local history
An AR classroom game for Grade 2. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.
This set has 6 questions in an interactive multiple choice activity.
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A look before you play
Sample questions
A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.
How can you find out about your community's past?
- Ask elderly people and look at old evidence
- Look at what the community is like now
- Write down stories from cartoons
Read the explanation
Ask the elders, look at old photographs, and read the community's records.
What is historical evidence?
- A picture that was just painted
- Things left from the past that tell us about it
- Stories made up for fun
Read the explanation
What is left over from the past and can tell us about it.
Which of these is historical evidence?
- A cartoon drawn yesterday
- A made-up novel
- An old photograph
Read the explanation
An old photograph records how things really were.
Before you play
Game teaching guide
What children will practise
Practises how we learn about a community's past (asking elders, looking at old evidence), what historical evidence is (such as old photos), why local history matters, caring for ancient sites, and counting years in the Buddhist Era. Fits indicator ส 4.1 ป.2/1.
What's in the worksheet
6 questions, choose 1 of 3 - How can we learn about our community's past? (ask older people and look at old evidence) - Which is historical evidence? (an old photograph; distractors are a new cartoon and a made-up novel) - How should ancient sites be cared for? (no graffiti, help protect them) - How does the Thai calendar count years? (Buddhist Era, BE)
How to use it in class
A good launch for a community-history project, about 7 minutes, whole class. After the evidence questions, show old photos of the school or neighbourhood. For the BE question, have children read the year on the classroom calendar. Afterwards, ask children to find out one thing about the old days from a grandparent. Play it linked to the class and the scores go into the gradebook.
Common sticking points
- Learning about the past: the distractor "look at how the community is now" draws children who cannot yet separate past and present. - Ancient sites: some pick "repaint them bright", thinking that is care. Explain repainting erases the original evidence. - Buddhist Era: some children pick "only the Christian Era" if they often see AD years on phones.
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