My daughters teacher assigned her a social studies project to do where they compared and contrasted life 100 years ago to today. One of the assignments was to interview a grandparent (or parent, friend, whomever) and ask them a few questions about how life was like when they were 8 years old. What was school like, or family life, or transportation, etc. My daughter interviewed a grandparent from both sides and turned in her interview notes.

The larger project was to do whatever they wanted...