What's it all about? An introduction to communication

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Keeping in Touch

Objectives

History

  • Learn about changes within living memory.
  • Know where people and events fit within chronological frameworks.
  • Develop an awareness of the past and the passing of time.

English

  • Use spoken language to develop imagination and explore ideas.
  • Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations.

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.

Provided Resources

  • A5 cards of past and present methods of communication
  • PowerPoint presentation of methods of communication
  • Large printed photos of all methods of communication discussed with dates

You Will Need

  • Blank timeline and teacher version of timeline