Learning Objective

Unit 3: What were seaside holidays like in the past?

Software - Websites - Activities

Generic:

Magic Grandad's Seaside Holidays

1: When do we have holidays?

• in which parts of the year key holidays take place
• to recall information from their past to answer questions about holidays
• to identify features associated with seaside holidays

Activities, resources and information http://home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/seaconte.htm  

2: What were seaside holidays like when our parents/carers and grandparents were young?

• to sequence photographs into a time series of three time periods by identifying differences between present and past times
• to use time-related vocabulary
• to find out about holidays in the past from photos

Match statements and dates to photos 1920/50/80 http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/server.php?request

3: What is different and what is the same about seaside holidays now and then?

• to distinguish between holidays in the recent and more distant past
• to sort information into categories that distinguish the present from the past
• to recognise that some things change and others stay the same

Photos showing Punch and Judy at variety of seaside locations                        www.punchandjudy.com/seaside.htm

4: What can you tell us about seaside holidays when you were a child?

• to find out about seaside holidays in the past by asking questions of an adult visitor

5: What do souvenirs tell us about seaside holidays in the past?

• to select important information about seaside holidays in the past
• to record what they have learned by drawing and writing

Download photos of souvenirs 

Create captions to go with objects/drawings