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The first football match

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Sports Tournaments History of Football

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Objectives

History

  • Children should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
  • Children should construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information.

Lesson Planning

Many countries claim to have invented football. Research the different ball games from the ancient past and decide which one you think is the most like modern football.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To research historical ball games.

Children will:

  • Address questions about historical sources.
  • Compare and contrast the information in non-fiction sources.
  • Trace the links between modern and historical events.

You Will Need

  • Football or similar

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