Activity Originally Created By:
Stephanie San Sebastian
How does your life differ from you parents or grandparents ?
Part of Lesson Plan: Generational Spending & Hospitality
Activity Overview / Details
Review the attached PowerPoints. Choose between the longer
or shorter version to suit your class time limitations. The
Powerpoint show examples of how life has changed in 40 years. If
you are a person born in the late 50's or 60's, this information
may be all too familiar. If not, you may review the attached
resource page to provide support information (To the veteran
teacher: come on... you know you remember :)
Show the students the PowerPoint. This presentation is intended to help the students identify the American lifestyles of the past. Ask the students to hypothesize how much their parents actually spent on "having fun as a teenager" and how that differs from how much it costs them.
Finish the hook by asking the students to pair and share any memories they have about family stories they may have heard from their elders about going on vacation. Did grandma & grandpa take moms or dads on a road trip in a camping trailer? Did they go to theme parks? Did they go to the drive-in? Have they ever heard their parents speak of vacationing when they were in high school? Use your imagination to develop further questions that will bring previous knowledge to the surface.
Show the students the PowerPoint. This presentation is intended to help the students identify the American lifestyles of the past. Ask the students to hypothesize how much their parents actually spent on "having fun as a teenager" and how that differs from how much it costs them.
Finish the hook by asking the students to pair and share any memories they have about family stories they may have heard from their elders about going on vacation. Did grandma & grandpa take moms or dads on a road trip in a camping trailer? Did they go to theme parks? Did they go to the drive-in? Have they ever heard their parents speak of vacationing when they were in high school? Use your imagination to develop further questions that will bring previous knowledge to the surface.
