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In conversation with young students we got to talking about “old things”.  These were things that the students did not really know about such as dial phones, vinyl records, and somehow, of all things aprons.

It reminded me of a poem called Grandma’s Apron by Tina Trivett, https://apronstringsotherthings.com/grandmas-apron-a-poem-for-you/

We looked it up and the concept of this type of grandma was also very unfamiliar to them.  It got me thinking about other people who wore aprons that were probably not familiar to them and of course I went searching at the Library of Congress. 

It cracked the boys up that what they considered something for girls was the name of part of an airport or a manufacturing machine.  We then located pictures of men wearing aprons.  We looked at the pictures and tried to figure out why the people were wearing aprons.  We speculated on why the machine and flight areas had aprons.

There are so many possibilities for this topic.  Do you see any that would work for you?