What will I wear today? Clothes and styles from different eras: portraits

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory A Day in the Life

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Objectives

History

Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
Learn about changes in living memory.
Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Art and Design

Use drawing and painting to develop and share their experiences.
Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

Lesson Planning

Children study clothes and hairstyles over the last fifty years and then paint a portrait of a relation.

Teaching Outcomes
To identify fashions and style trends from various eras.
To paint a portrait of a relative as a child or young adult.

Children will:

Identify trends and clothes from photographs of people from different eras.
Create a portrait of a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent, based on an old photograph.

Planning

Provided Resources

Photos and portraits of people from different eras
Face proportions
Images of fashions from different eras

Unit Resources

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

Fashions over the past 100 years – YouTube clip