Transport trip (day out)

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

Objectives

History

  • Learn about changes within living memory.
  • Ask and answer questions choosing and using a variety of sources.
  • Begin to understand some of the ways we know about the past and understand the different ways in which it is represented.

English

  • Ask relevant questions to extend understanding and knowledge.
  • Give well-structured descriptions and explanations.
  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating.

Lesson Planning

Children are taken on a trip to a transport museum or on a ride on an old train or canal boat or ferry or…. They are thus able to experience directly older forms of transport. They relate what they see and do to their own experiences of transport now.

Teaching Outcomes
To research a particular historical form of transport in the locality.
To ask and answer appropriate questions and report back on their experiences.

Children can:

  • Begin to understand how transport was different in the past.
  • Understand how things change over time and begin to appreciate a chronology of one form of transport.

Provided Resources

  • A trip recording sheet
  • Form letter for parents

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

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