Title: Childhood Comparison Interview Submission
Course: BC-Social Studies 9-1.0.0.0-XT > Section: Unit 2: Innovations and Inventions

Your task is to compare your own childhood to the childhood of a trusted senior in your life. Specifically, your goal is to look at how technology has made the way you live your life different from how they lived when they were your age.

Step 1: Find an interviewee<

Find a trusted adult in your life who is significantly older than you. Ideally, it should be someone who remembers life in the 1950s or earlier. Contact them and ask them if you can interview them about their childhood.

Step 2: Prepare your questions

Prepare a series of questions for your interview. You want to ask questions that will help you discover:

- What daily life and school were like for the person you are interviewing
- Technologies that they did not have when they were children
- Comparisons they can make between their childhood and that of children today
- How some of the following have changed since they were children:
  - Schooling
  - Research
  - Communication
  - Transportation
  - Money, spending, and costs
  - Human rights for minority groups

Step 3: Conduct your interview

Conduct your interview. If you need to record your interview, be sure to ask permission first. If you cannot record your interview, try to take notes on what your interviewee says. Be sure to thank them for their time and for sharing their story with you.

Step 4: Write a summary

After your interview, write a 250- to 300-word summary of what you found out. In your summary, try to highlight:

- Interesting stories that show how life today is different from when your interviewee was a child
- Specific ways that technology has made your life different than theirs
- Observations that you or your interviewee have made about how life has changed

Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Interview and communication skills | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | I am able to use basic interviewing skills to gather and interpret information. I show that I need help to present my findings in an understandable way. | I am able to use satisfactory interviewing skills to gather and interpret information. I show that I can present my findings in a limited way. | I am able to use effective interviewing skills to gather and interpret information. I show that I can present my findings in an understandable way. | I am able to use exemplary interviewing skills to gather and interpret information. I show that I can present my findings in a clear and organized way.