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Wiltshire E-Learning Project Curriculum Area: History KS1 - Year 1
Learning Objective

Unit2: What were homes like a long time ago

 

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1: What sorts of homes do people live in today?
  • that people live in different sorts of homes
  • to talk about homes using appropriate vocabulary

 

Clicker resources Homes and Houses
  Types of House
www.learninggrids.com
   
Clicker 4
Clicker 4
Clicker 5

 

2: What can we find out from the outside of homes?
  • to recognise common external features of domestic dwellings
  • to record their observations appropriately

 

Label photographs with common features.
 
Collect data about children's homes
Create a simple database of children’s homes
 
 
 
 
Word
Textease data

 

 
 
3: How were homes long ago different from homes today?
  • to identify the key features of a home built a long time ago
  • to identify differences between two homes built at different times

 

Look around a Victorian house-animated www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/stepback

Print and do sheets www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/print

 

Website

 

4: What would we find inside people's homes a long time ago?
  • to recognise different rooms and household objects from a long time ago
  • to describe the characteristics of household objects from a long time ago

 

Variety of Victorian and Edwardian interiors http://historictempletonmccanlessdistrict.com

 

 

5: What can we find out about Victorian or Edwardian times from looking at household objects?
  • how to answer questions about household objects used a long time ago
  • to make inferences about aspects of home life a long time ago

 

Photographs of museum artefacts to download and use.  
6: How can we turn the 'home corner' into a bathroom, kitchen or living room from a long time ago?
  • to apply their knowledge and understanding of home life a long time ago
  • to communicate, through role play what they have learnt about home life