Starting History
7 total works
This pack contains a large colour poster of two farming scenes, one from the 1900s and the other the 1950s. Photographs show various farming implements used in the two periods, plus farm buildings and farming methods. 32 photocopiable activity sheets linked to the photographs and eight pages of teachers' notes on teaching history and using the pack are also included. This pack is suitable for Key Stage 1 as an historical element and Key Stage 2 as part of food and farming studies.
Follows the usual format of primary sources in the form of photographs and secondary sources in the form of illustrations, to explain to primary-aged children the similarities and differences in the work done by people in the 1900s and 195Os.
This is a collection of maps that provide a geographical context for the six history Key Stage 2 Core Study Units - invaders, Tudors and Stuarts, Victorian Britain, Britain since 1930, ancient Greece and exploration and encounters. This pack comprises 56 photocopiable maps and 2 posters, one of which features 2 maps, one of the world as it was seen before the major period of exploration (1450) and the second shows what had been discovered by 1550. The other colour poster features maps of ancient civilizations as listed in the SSUs category C - Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Assyria, the Indus Valley, the Maya and Benin. There are also 12 pages of teachers' notes outlining a background to the various periods and suggesting ways of using the maps.
This pack includes a poster, 12 pages of photographs and 32 photocopiable activity sheets with a teaching plan on the reverse. This pack takes the popular theme of children, with particular relevance to a topic on "ourselves" at Key Stage 1 and for CSUs 3 and 4 (Victorian Britain and Britain since 1930) at Key Stage 2.
Follows the usual format of primary sources in the form of photographs and secondary sources in the form of illustrations, to explain to primary-aged children the similarities and differences in the work done by people in the 1900s and 195Os for comparison with today. The pack addresses topics such as the world of work and people who help us at Key Stage 1 and Core Study Units 3 and 4 at Key Stage 2. In addition there will be links with the cross-curricular theme of economic and industrial understanding.
This pack includes a poster, 12 pages of photographs, 32 photocopiable work sheets and eight pages of teacher's notes. The pack compares leisure activities and artefacts of 1900 and 1950 so that children can make comparisons with leisure pursuits of today. The photocopiable sheets have line drawings of different forms of leisure activities, with teacher's notes, linked to the National Curriculum, on the reverse. The authors have also written "Early Years History - an Approach Through Story" and "Starting History - Homes and Transport".