Around the world

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Beyond Living Memory: Commemorating History Remembrance Day

Objectives

History

  • Ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that they know and understand key features of events.
  • Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.

Art and Design

  • Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

Lesson Planning

Is Remembrance Day only a national event or is it global? What do other countries do?

Teaching Outcomes
To find out whether the national act of remembrance is also global.
To use various creative activities to present findings from their investigations and research.

Children will:

  • Investigate whether acts of remembrance are global or only national.
  • Present their findings to an audience.

Provided Resources

  • Information sheet on suggestions for group resources and activities

You Will Need

  • Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Sophie Fatus & Fred Penner
  • Globe or map of the world
  • Resources required for children’s investigations