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The Past and Present

Check out the Quantum Zapp game on the Game On! channel.
Read about how people did things in the past. Then, write about how we do those things today.

Communication Entertainment
In the past, people who lived far away In the past, people listened to the
from one another wrote letters to communicate. radio and went to live shows for entertainment.

Today, people who live far away from one another Today, people _____________________________

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___________________________ to communicate. _____________________ for entertainment.

Photography Travel
In the past, people could only take In the past, people traveled by horse
pictures with cameras. and buggy.

Today, people take pictures with ______________ Today, people travel by _____________________

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School Lots of inventions make things easier or better.

Write about something you’d like to invent to
In the past, kids wrote on slates at
make your life better or easier.
school and used straps to carry their books.

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Today, kids write on _____________ at school and

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use _____________________ to carry their books.

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