History Cross-Curricular KS1

This unit contains lesson plans, activity sheets, resources sheets and PowerPoint presentation packs that discuss:

• Home today: learning about the different types of homes people live in
• Inside my house: learning about rooms in modern houses
• Lord John’s castle: recognising the key features of a castle and homes built at different times
• Visiting a castle: understanding the uses of a castle's key features
• We love castles!: making a labelling a castle model
• Welcome to the feast: learning who lived and worked in medieval castles.

This unit contains lesson plans, activity sheets, resources sheets and PowerPoint presentation packs that discuss:

• Let’s find out about different places: recognising key geographical and social characteristics of different places
• The seaside long ago: finding out about the seaside in the past from pictures, photographs and drama
• Let’s go to the seaside!: identifying key features of a place using atlases, pictures and photographs
• All in the past: comparing maps of the seaside today and in the past
• Seaside visits: investigating why people visit the seaside
• The funfair: thinking about how changes affect places and people.

This unit contains lesson plans, medium-term plans, activity sheets, resources sheets and PowerPoint presentation packs that discuss:

• Famous people: Mary Seacole, George Stephenson, Brunel - the impact of famous people on the past and present.
• Transport now and then: learning about different forms of transport in the nineteenth century, the achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Great Western Railwayn and modern transport.
• SS Great Britain: Learning about Brunel's ship, ship timeline.
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel: consolidating learning, ordering events in Brunel's life, making a storybook.

This unit contains lesson plans, medium-term plans activity sheets, resources sheets and PowerPoint presentation packs that discuss:

• Fireworks: learning that fireworks are used for celebrations arond the world, health and safety issues of fireworks - the Firework Code, learning the story of the Gunpowder Plot
• The Gunpowder Plot: finding out about why the plot was formed, who Guy Fawkes was, where and when the plot took place and being able to sequence the events correctly.
• Warning letters: Fawkes's letter. Understanding why the plot failed and what the conspirators wanted to happen. Creating a short, simple text on paper.
• Remember, remember!: making different representations of the Gunpowder Plot - drawing, sequencing, making tapestries and collages.

This unit contains lesson plans, medium-term plans, activity sheets, resources sheets and PowerPoint presentation packs that discuss:

• Where in the world is China?: locating China on a globe/map, finding out about China - China fact file
• What is it like to live in China?: finding out about life in modern China, using secondary sources, making hats
• Objects from China: investigating objects from China, gathering information about the past, describing artefacts, using photographs as evidence from the past.
• Ying Zheng the First Emperor: investigating why the First Emperor is remembered and creating a simple text.