Local History: How is Joel Halliwell Significant?
Year 3
Unit Overview
This project teaches children about the local, significant individual - Joel Halliwell.Β The children will have opportunities to learn about Joel Halliwell's life, his achievements and why he is significant within Middleton and beyond. This project also enables children to explore Middleton's past and dig deep into how it's changed over time and what has continued and remained the same.
β MEMORABLE MOMENT
Researching using newspaper articles, maps, photographs.
οΈβοΈ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Writing down research findings.
π³ LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions
What is a historical enquiry? Start our enquiry to the question 'Who was Joel Halliwell?' Break this question down in to smaller questions that focus us in on specific aspects of Joel's life.
Start to work through the smaller enguiry questions using photographs, maps and copies of newspapers and television reports.
Explore why Joel Halliwell is important to us as Parkfielders. (He too was a Parkfielder!) Link to our characteristics. Create a fact sheet and time line to summarise our findings.
π BIG FINISH
Facts sheet.
π FOCUS TEXT(S)Β
A range of newspaper reports, online information from local museums and Rochdale online.