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
🏁 BIG FINISH
We are going to create a time capsule
📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)
A Day in the Past - created by Miss McCall
Knowledge Organiser
