Lesson Planning

The history of communication starts with people carrying oral messages and then takes in carrier pigeons, horse-riding messengers, letters, Morse code, telegrams, telephones, mobiles, emails and the internet.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand that there are a range of different ways we communicate now, as there were in the past.
To discuss how to work together to make a human timeline to illustrate the order of communication methods over the past 100 years.

Children will:

• Understand the significance of communication in the past and present.
• Recognise and name a range of methods of communication, saying how they worked and placing them in time order.