Introduction to transport

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Transport

Objectives

History

  • Understand changes within living memory.
  • Recognise similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Design and Technology

  • Select from and use a range of tools and equipment according to their characteristics to perform practical tasks.
  • Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.

Lesson Planning

Children name and describe different types of transport and begin to understand transport was different when their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were little.
They create a wheel and understand the importance of its invention.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand how transport has changed over time.
To produce a wheel using simple resources.

Children can:

  • Name and describe different types of transport.
  • Begin to understand transport was different when their parents and grandparents were little.
  • Understand that transport: cars, buses, trains have changed over time.

Provided Resources

  • Photographs showing a selection of photos of transport from the 1940s
  • PowerPoint of cars and trains through the last 60 years

You Will Need

  • Masking tape
  • Art straws