Causation - How have ideas and inventions changed our lives?

"If people had no dryers and no electricity in the olden days, what did their homes look like?" Trystan inquired.

The houses a long time ago were mostly made out of wood, cut and carried by men or horses from the forest. In order to get a better understanding of how houses were built in the olden days, we all collected sticks from the forest to build a "House like in the olden days" miniature model. After piling the sticks and breaking them into even pieces, building a house, an outhouse and a fence, the children then had to display them on a board. We discussed the fact that the outhouse needed to be placed as far away as possible from the house. Maddi "Yes, if not, the yucky smell might go into the house."

For the next little while, we will do research on some things that people had in their houses. After, we will build a miniature model house/building from the present and look at the differences, the inventions and how these impact our lives.

So far, this is the list that we came up with of things that people used to have in their homes a long time ago:

- Candles -> Trystan: "Because there was no electricity"

- Churn -> Alexis: "Or a jar with marbles to make home-made butter."

- Bucket -> Sofia: "To wash clothes."

Please share ideas with us of things that you guys used to have in your houses, which was replaced by an invention that changed our lives.

For e.g - Anamaria: "We used to have string hung by our windows to dry our clothes. Today, we have a dryer which makes drying clothes fast. It is also more convenient to have it inside our home."