Learning Objective

Unit1: How are our toys different from those in the past?

Software - Websites - Activities

Generic:

1: What are our toys like?

• to describe an artefact
• how to find out about aspects of the past

2: What were our parents' and grandparents' toys like?

• to use everyday words and phrases to describe an artefact
• to speak about everyday objects in the past

3: What were other people's toys like? 

• that oral sources and museum displays can be used to find out about the past

4: How do we know that some toys are old?

• how to decide whether an object is old or new
• to describe the characteristics of old and new objects

Blank database using Junior Pinpoint http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/server.php

Sort own photographs, taken with digital camera, into chronological order.

5: What is the same and what is different about these toys?

• to identify similarities and differences between old toys and new toys
• to speak about how they have found out about old and new toys

6: How can we show visitors what we have found out?

• how museum exhibits are organised
• to sort objects in different ways
• to sequence objects in time
• to communicate what they have learned about toys in a variety of ways

Produce labels using ICT for toy museum

Online toy museum http://www.pollocksweb.co.uk/

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