What now?
In other activities, you have been able to use documents, look at photographs and make recordings of oral history to help understand more about what life was like in Britain in the 1930s.
What happens today will one day be history too. How can we preserve it for the future to show what life was like in the early Twenty First Century?
Using the skills you have already developed, have a go at telling the story of public transport today. Here are some ideas to get you started.
- Make a survey and maps of the types, cost, routes of public transport in your local area
- Contact your local transport companies for information
- Arrange a visit to a transport depot to find out what goes on, take digital photographs, make videos, drawings, collages and written observations
- Arrange to record the memories of people who work in public transport today – their funny stories, scary stories and general working life. Invite them to your school to talk to the class.
- Contact your local council and find out what their plans are for transport in your area in the future. Do you agree with their ideas? Invite the councillor responsible to visit your school for a discussion.
How much has changed and how much has stayed the same? You will have lots of research to help you answer that question.
