What is used now?
Explore the slide show of objects from the present. Look at the images, read the descriptions and discuss.
Notebook

This notebook has a bright, pink plastic cover. A spiral of metal, a bit like a spring, threads through the holes punched along the edge of the cover and the pages to hold them all together.
Felt-tip pens

Here is a group of felt-tip pens in bright colours. The lid of each pen shows you its colour. These pens can be used for drawing and colouring. The pens on top have special tips for making different patterns with straight or squiggly lines.
iPad

An iPad tablet is a rectangle shape with a screen for viewing and reading e-books, playing games and, doing learning activities. It has a touch screen. When it's turned on you can see some icons, which are little pictures sometimes with words. You tap them with your finger and they open ready to use.
Jigsaw

This is a wooden jigsaw puzzle of a butterfly. It has 8 pieces and each has a round knob to hold when you make the puzzle or take it apart. The frame around the butterfly is plain wood and the butterfly has a yellow body with blue, red and purple wings.
Interactive whiteboard

This interactive whiteboard is on a wall and has a large screen for showing learning activities in classrooms. Teachers and students use touch to move text and pictures around the board. The shelf under the board has special coloured markers. On either side of the board are speakers for sound.
Teacher questions
Teachers could ask the following questions during this activity.
- What is it?
- What does it look like?
- What is it made of?
- How is it used?
- What is it used for?
- Who uses it?
- How does it work?
- How has it changed over time?
- Has technology changed it? If so how?
- What clues tell us it is from the present time?