Life Long Ago – Spanish
La Vida Hace Mucho Tiempo
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Historia del video: Hace mucho tiempo, un grupo llamado los Peregrinos llegó a América. Se establecieron aquí entre los distintos grupos de nativos americanos. Otros colonizadores también llegaron a América desde otros países. Muchos vinieron con la intención de ser libres. Muchos personajes y símbolos históricos se han convertido en representantes de la libertad en Estados Unidos.
Duración del vídeo: 9:15 minutos.
🕰️ Step back in time with your students and explore what life was like long ago! This Life Long Ago video for kids introduces young learners to the lives of Pilgrims, Native Americans, and early settlers in a way that’s age-appropriate, visual, and deeply engaging. Students will discover how people cooked, traveled, dressed, and celebrated in early America — while making meaningful comparisons to their own modern lives.
🪶 Explore Traditions, Homes, and Heroes in This Grade 1 Social Studies Video
Through colorful narration and clear visuals, students learn about Native American traditions and shelters, early farming and hunting, and how Pilgrims settled in a new land. They’ll also see how communities grew, how people worked together, and how freedom and cooperation shaped our country’s earliest stories. The video introduces concepts like survival, sharing, and gratitude in a way kids can truly connect with.
🎥 This life long ago video for kids also introduces young learners to important historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping them begin to understand the concept of leadership, fairness, and the ongoing story of freedom in America. U.S. symbols like the flag and the Liberty Bell are explained in terms kids can grasp and appreciate.
🏆 Perfect for launching your Grade 1 history or civics unit, this video supports lessons on life in the past, family traditions, holidays like Thanksgiving, and how we honor important leaders. Teachers love how it brings early American history to life — while reinforcing values like kindness, responsibility, and gratitude.
Curriculum Standards for this Video
State Standards
Worksheets
Quizzes – PDF & Online
Freedom Fighting Figures
A Timeline: Looking for Freedom in America
Life Long Ago
Draw a Scene
Universal Resources
Video Curriculum Standards
Worksheets – Thumbnails
Temas Abarcados
La vida era más complicada hace mucho tiempo
Había que cosechar los alimentos y todo se hacía a mano
El modo de vida de los nativos americanos
Vivienda y vestimenta de los nativos americanos
Llegada de Cristóbal Colón
Llegada de los peregrinos y colonos
Tradición del Día de Acción de Gracias
Conflicto con Inglaterra
Lincoln y la liberación de la esclavitud
Inmigrantes y libertad
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Classroom Ideas
Discussion Topics
Have students offer ideas about everyday items that didn’t exist long ago.
Have students discuss the daily life of the early settlers or their great-grandparents.
Create a list of all the items that people would have to make for their daily lives.
What did the daily diet of the early settlers look like?
Discuss the very first Thanksgiving.
Art and Social Studies
Use various materials to create a small-scale home for a group of Native Americans, e.g. a wigwam. Can be done in groups.
Cloze Practice
A cloze piece has full sentences used in the virtual field trip with blanks where students can write in the information that is missing. This task requires close listening to the trip in order to complete it.
Coral reefs are the _______ type of ecosystem in the world. They’ve been around for over _____ million years.
Answers: oldest; 240
Alternatively, you could have students create 5-10 cloze statements and they could share those with the class.
A third alternative is to distribute the cloze worksheets before watching the video. Students can fill them in as they watch.
Native American Groups
Create a lesson (or lessons) that introduce students to the major tribes of Native Americans. This could be nearby tribes, or tribes across the country.
Transportation
Compare/contrast various modes of transportation that the early settlers used.
Explore Vocabulary
Identify key vocabulary terms while previewing each video. Prompt students to find the meaning of each word as they watch the video. Example: What do the words bartering and artifact mean? Think about the meaning of this word as you watch this video.
Visual Learning
Offer videos to struggling learners as another form of accessing information and creating knowledge.
Art
Draw a scene from the video you just watched.
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