KIDS REACT TO WALKMANS (Portable Cassette Players)

Today we began our unit on Science and Technology.  Our primary focus is on technology at home and school, and comparing how things were 100 years ago, to how they are now.  Over the past 100 years, technology has changed just about every aspect of our everyday lives.  A fun way of introducing this concept was to show this video of children reacting to old technology...the walkman!

Check it out for yourself, and if you have any old tech that you would like to bring in and share with the class, please message me so we can set up a time to do our own "Kids React" lesson in the class.  Last year we got to explore an old "Box" TV, a Commodore 64 computer, a record player, a GameBoy, a VCR, and an old camcorder from the 1980's.  The students had a lot of fun with it, and it was very interesting to hear them hypothesize how this old technology might have been used.

This is a fun unit, and I hope that you can share a nostalgic walk down memory lane with the technology that you held onto in the attic, garage, or closet.  -Mr. Linnet