History Resource File KS2 (5 & 6)

Lessons include:

• Who were the Victorians and when did they live?
• What do we know about the Victorians?
• Film researcher
• Factory report
• Lord Shaftesbury and Doctor Barnardo
• Victorian school visit
• Fun adn games
• Attitudes to children
• Changes for children during Victorian times

Lessons include:

• What was here before the Victorians?
• Who lived here in early Victorians times?
• Who lived here in 1891?
• Looking at industry and transport
• How did the arrival and the expansion of the railway affect our area?
• What can we find out about early and late Victorian architecture?
• Looking at Vistorian architecture
• What did the Victorians leave behind?
• What do we need to know about Victorians?
• What did the Victorians do for us?

Lessons include:

• Decade detective
• Evaluating evidence
• The enquiry
• Stage 1: The enquiry begins
• Stage 2: The enquiry continues
• Stage 5: The visitors
• Links and connections
• Our multicultural community
• Britain since 1948

Lessons include:

• Greece today
• Ancient Greek city states
• Athens and Sparta
• Triremes and hoplites
• The battle of Marathon
• Who did the ancient Greeks worship
• Theseus and the Minotaur
• Ancient Greek theatre
• The play's the thing
• The modern Olympic Games
• The ancient Olympic Games
• What we know about the ancient Greeks

Lessons include:

• Greek words
• Greek letters
• What were schools like in ancient Greece?
• Great Greek building styles
• Greek styles in our area
• Famous Greeks
• The modern Olympic Games
• The ancient Olympic Games
• What have we learned from the ancient Greeks?
• Greek festival

Lesson plans:

• Where was the Indus Valley civilization?
• How long ago was the Indus Valley civilization?
• Discovering the Indus Valley
• Evidence: Streets and buildings
• Evidence: Buildings and features
• Evidence: Artefacts
• Creating replica artefacts
• Written evidence
• How and why do we classify evidence in history?
• What have we found out about life in the Indus valley?

Lessons include:

• How did knowledge of the world change during the Tudors?
• Why did the Tudors explore outside Europe?
• How did people explore the world in Tudor times?
• What were conditions like for men at sea in Tudor times?
• What can we learn about Drake?
• Why did Drake circumnavigate the world?
• Voyage to Roanoke
• Why did the Roanoke settlement fail?
• What were the effects of the English settlement on the people?
• What impact has Tudor exploration had on our lives?

Lessons include:

• Who was John Lennon?
• How John Lennon and the Beatles became famous
• The Beatles remembered
• A change of image
• Going solo
• Reactions to the death of John Lennon
• John Lennon's impact on history
• Record covers