Lesson Planning
Children are taken on a trip to a transport museum or on a ride on an old train or canal boat or ferry or…. They are thus able to experience directly older forms of transport. They relate what they see and do to their own experiences of transport now.
Teaching Outcomes
To research a particular historical form of transport in the locality.
To ask and answer appropriate questions and report back on their experiences.
Children can:
- Begin to understand how transport was different in the past.
- Understand how things change over time and begin to appreciate a chronology of one form of transport.