How am I Making History?

Year 1

Unit Overview

Looking at personal chronology and finding out about the past within living memory, children examine photographs and ask questions. They begin to look at a simple timeline extending back to before they were born.

Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions

What is my history? - To develop an understanding of chronology.
How can I find out more about myself? - To learn more about my history.
How are special events remembered? - To explore how we remember events.
What was it like for children in the past? - To find out what life was like for our parents and grandparents.
What have I learnt about childhood in the past? Compare childhood now with childhood in the past.
How am I making history? - To identify that some things change and some things stay the same.

❇ SUBSTANTIVE CONCEPTS

❇DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS

Change and continuity
Similarities and differences
Sources of evidence
Historical interpretations

️✏️ HISTORICAL VOCABULARY

- celebrate
- celebration
- change
- childhood
- different
- event
- family
- future
- grandparent
- lifetime
- living memory
- memory
- now
- present
- past
- remember
- significant
- similar
- time capsule
- timeline

❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT

Create a time capsule

️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

To comapre childhood in the past to childhood now

🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

To find out what it was like for parents and grandparents in the past

🏁SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW

Look at pictures from the present and the past . Explore what is the same and what is different.

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