Melbourne Infant School - History- Homes - YEar1

Day Objectives Activities Resources
1 · To learn that people live in different sorts of homes.· To talk about homes sing the appropriate vocabulary. TI: Begin with the topic assessment sheet. What do the children know now?Show the children pictures of different types of homes on Textease. What sort of home is this?Using a word bank, children drop labels to pictures.What sort of home do you live in? Tell a partner. How many rooms? Has it got stairs inside? Is t joined to another house? Choose the name from the board which describes our own type of house.Model Activities.Activities: 1. Computer group – drag and drop the words to each type o house. 2. Draw your own home. 3. Cut and stick homes to correct names. 4. Build your home from lego.Plenary- look at children’s homes. What sort of homes are these? Which type is the most popular? Textease / pictures (p/katiec/planning/topicactivites/pics of homes).Paper / drawing materials.Worksheet of different homes.lego
2 · To recognise the key external features of homes.· To record the features through drawing. TI: look at the pictures of different types of homes. Explain that today we will be looking at the external features on houses. Children play detectives with a partner and hunt out all the features they can see. Who can find the most? What are their names?Model Activities.Activties: 1.Children take a photograph of their own home and label the external features on their house. (pre prepared picture for children who don’t have photograph) 2. Name that feature (differentiated worksheet). 3. Computer – label external features using word bank. 4. Research – Using a range of books about homes, look at the different features.Plenary: Share labelled photographs. How might the external features help us identify new and old homes? Textease / pictures (p/katiec/planning/topicactivites/pics of homes).Photographs.Name that feature worksheet.Books about homes.
3 · To recognise different home in the locality.· To use historical language. TI: recap the different types of home learnt on day 1. Recap the external features of homes from lesson 2. How can we tell if a home is old or new? What types of homes do you think there are in Melbourne?Activity – children to undertake a fieldtrip looking at the kind of homes there are surrounding the school. Children to draw some of the homes and interesting external features. Are the homes old? New? (digital camera may also be used to take photographs of homes).Plenary: discuss findings. Share pictures of interesting homes and features. ClipboardsPencilsPaperParent helpersDigital camera
4 · To recognise the differences between the outside of old and new homes.· To use historical language. TI: looking at www.digitalbrain.com/digitalbrain/web/subjects/1.%20primary/ks1his1/sul/0homes/?verb=view (Stoneage homes / Anglo Saxon) and http://tlfe.org.uk/clicker/flashhistory/ks1/homes.swf (Victorian/Edwardian homes) Identify and discuss homes over the ages. Look at the earlier homes and identify the materials they are made from and why? Identify their external features (e.g. wood homes with no windows). How are they different from the Victorian homes? How are they like homes today?Model activities.Activity – Children order pictures of homes on a time line. (differentiated)Ext Children draw a home from a chosen period of time and label it’s features / write a sentence about the home.Plenary: look at time line of homes. How have they changed over the years? IWBInternetwww.digitalbrain.com/digitalbrain/web/subjects/1.%20primary/ks1his1/sul/0homes/?verb=view (Stoneage homes / Anglo Saxon) and http://tlfe.org.uk/clicker/flashhistory/ks1/homes.swf (Victorian/Edwardian homes)timelines and home pictures (differentiated)
5 · To now about the inside of homes long ago.· To use appropriate vocabulary when talking about homes. TI: look inside a Victorian home: www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/stepbackhtm. (Children lead their way through a Victorian home, discussing features / objects in the house)How is it different from your home? Using History KS1 Flipbook and ‘homes’ big book look at the different rooms. Encourage appropriate use of vocabulary.Activity: In groups, children to paint the inside of a room from a Victorian house (pictures on tables to support) . When completed, children discuss what Victorian people might be doing in their room? Children to act out a scene from their room.Plenary: Look at pictures, identifying features. Children act out scenes of Victorians in their homes. IWBwww.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/stepbackhtm.Paper/ drawing materials.Pictures of victorian rooms
6 · To understand about objects that people had in their homes long ago.· To describe the characterisics of a household from long ago.· To talk about objects using the appropraite vocabulary. TI: Look at some pictures of objects found in a Victorian home. What are they? Which room are they from?Drag and drop labels on textease to correct picture.Model activity.Activity: In groups, children to make the objects that you would find in their Victorian room (prepared yesterday) from clay.Plenary: look at some of the objects the children have made. What are they? Which room do they come from? IWBTextease (p/katiec/planning/topicactivities/artefacts from victorian house)ClayClay boards
7 · To understand about objects that people had in their homes long ago.· To describe the characterisics of a household from long ago.· To talk about objects using the appropraite vocabulary. TI: Recap the rooms of the Victorian homes. Look at some of the clay artefacts the children have created. What are they? Do we still use these type of objects today?Activity: Children paint their clay artefacts and when dry display them in their Victorian rooms.Plenary: Topic Assessment sheet. Victorian roomsArtefacts (clay)PaintAssessment sheet