How Have Toys Changed?

Year 1

Unit Overview

Sequencing toys into a physical timeline, children investigate artefacts from the past and begin to pose questions. They learn how teddy bears have changed and ‘interview’ an old teddy bear before considering what toys may be like in the future.

Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions

What is your favourite toy? - To discuss my favourite toy.
Did your parents and grandparents play with the same toys as you? - To fins out what toys our parents and grandparents played with.
What were toys like in the past? - To investigate what toys were like up to 100 years ago.
What is similar and different about toys now and in the past? - To compare toys in the past to modern toys.
How have teddy bears changed over time? - To investigate how teddy bears have changed over time.
How have toys changed? -To know how toys have changed over time.

❇ SUBSTANTIVE CONCEPTS

️❇ DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS

Change and continuity
Similarities and differences
Sources of evidence
Historical interpretations

❇ HISTORICAL VOCABULARY

artefact
century
decade
different
evidence
historian
living memory
memory
modern
now
past
present
remember
sequence
similar
source
special

❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT

Explore toys from the past

️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

Answer the questions from the Toy Museum activity

🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

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🏁 SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW

Can you think of and draw any toys that children in the past played with and children still play with now?

📖SUGGESTED FOCUS TEXT(S)

Lost in the Toy Museum by David Lucas

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