Detectives

Topics Year 3
This unit is part of Crime and Punishment Police

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Objectives

History

Study an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 such as crime and punishment from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

English

Draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.

Art

Improve mastery of art and design techniques.
Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.

Lesson Planning

Address questions of cause and significance when drawing the story of a detective case as a cartoon.

Teaching Outcomes:

To draw the story of a detective case as a cartoon.

Children will:

Address questions of cause and significance based on historical sources.
Improvise the story of a historical criminal case.
Write and/or draw a narrative version of an historical event.

Planning

Provided Resources

Early detectives
Case studies of early detective cases
Newspaper report template
Cartoon template

You Will Need

Drawing materials e.g. pencils, felt tips

Weblinks

History of detectives from britannica.com
National Archives page about the CID from webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk