Medieval Clothing
Your child knows what people wore long ago showed if they were rich or poor. Poor people wore wool, while rich people wore silk, fur, and bright colours.
In curriculum terms
What people wore in medieval times: peasant clothes (wool, linen) vs noble clothes (silk, fur, bright colours); no zippers or buttons; how clothes showed your place in society
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If your child saw pictures of different medieval people, could they tell you which ones were rich and which were poor just by looking at their clothes?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).