Week 2 history
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This document outlines activities for teaching students about inventions that changed the world in the 20th century. It includes: - A discussion about when the 20th century was and inventions students couldn't live without. - An activity where students research the origins of items they use daily, finding details about inventors and inventions from the last 100 years. - Guided research on one invention for students who can't access technology independently. - A lesson on early writing tools and how people communicated before the alphabet. - An introduction to the "Golden Age of Invention" between the 8th-13th centuries, when many impactful inventions were created.
Week 2 history
- 1. Inventions that changed the world Spring 2013 Topic and Learning Intention History LI: Can I find out about the main inventions, in particular the 20th Century? Targets Know about the main inventions of the past Be able to give some reasons for particular events and changes Be able to gather information from simple sources Activities Discussion When was the 20th Century? Remind children of centuries, how long they are and the fact that the number of the century is 1 more than the year e.g. the 20 th century is 1900 - 1999 Discussion What inventions could you not live with today? Collate a class list. Activity Children to use the netbooks to investigate the origins of the items that they use daily in their lives. Focus to be inventions during the last 100 years and to find out: Who was the inventor? When it was invented? Why it was invented? How it was made? Children to use structured sheet to remind them of what they are investigating and to help them record the information correctly. Guided Group: Work with children who will be unable to access the netbooks. Use one netbook as your main netbook and ask the children to work as a team to naviagate the internet and research only one invention. N.B. This lesson could be completed during an ICT session. History Activity LI: Can I understand how people used to communicate? Tell the children that you have banned pencils and pens but you still need them to work. Give children access to early writing tools; these can be collected by the teacher or by the class, across the road in Sherwood park. Mind map some ways that the children could complete their work today. Task Children to find a way to record and communicate to others a variety of messages. Messages to
- 2. Inventions that changed the world Spring 2013 be given to each group in secret. Children to guess what each groups message is. Children to choose what materials they would like to communicate with. Children to discuss the issues that arose during the task, could they communicate precisely? Did they always communicate with letters from the alphabet? Children to return to the classroom and discuss how people communicated. When was the alphabet invented? 1700-1500BC by Semitic people from the Eastern Mediterranean How were books circulated before printers? Educated monks. How did people communicate before the invention of the alphabet? Drawings. What materials did people use? Watered clay, blood, tapestries, indian ink. History LI: Can I understand how inventions changed the way we live? Introduction Children to be introduced to the idea of the Golden age of Invention. This is between the 8th and 13th Centuries. This lesson can be done as a research lesson, however, 2 research lessons in 1 week may be quite pressing for this year group. Learning Follow the IWB and introduce the children to each invention Know about the main inventions of the past Know about the lives of people in the past and the technology they had access to Be able to give some reasons for particular events and changes Be able to gather information from simple sources Be able to use their knowledge and understanding to answer simple questions about the past and about changes Activity Children to decide which invention they think is the most important invention. Children to then explore what their world would be like without this invention. Children to complete a comic strip activity. The page is laid out like a comic strip, however, the pictures do not need to flow, but are helpful to structure and section pictures. Children to contemplate different scenarios without this invention. What the world would be like without Plenary Drama Children to work on an improvised piece of work. Think about the drama we have down with Alex. Children to be introduced into the story to explore scenarios then whooshed out of the acting area. E.g. If the world did not have hospitals, people would be really scared if they cut their finger (child to over react) they would not have doctors to help them in case it got infected.
- 3. Inventions that changed the world Spring 2013 Understand that the past can be considered in terms of different time periods Understand that the past has been recorded in a variety of different ways If the world did not have spectacles, then when you got old and your eyesight got worse, you wouldnt be able to read (child acts trying to do activities without reading)