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History at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 5/6)

Unit 13: How has life in Britain changed since 1948?
Section 4: THE ENQUIRY STAGE 1: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to carry out their own enquiry

Activities

Outcomes
Children:

Divide the children into groups. Allocate a topic and relevant sources to each group. Ask them to focus on: What are the most important changes in your topic area since 1948? When did they happen? Children familiarise themselves with one or more sources and collect information. They record their findings in two columns, headed 'What do I know?' and 'What would I like to know?'

  • select and record information that is relevant to their topic
  • use sources to infer information about change since 1948

Points to note
Schools may want to vary their approach to the enquiry depending on the resources they have and any opportunities provided by the locality of the school. Other topics could be introduced or one topic looked at in greater depth.

Sources of information will need to be relevant, show a variety of media and be appropriate to the age and attainment of the children.

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1. How can we begin to find out about change since the Second World War?
2. What types of evidence can we use to find out about life in Britain since the Second World War?
3. THE ENQUIRY: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?
4. THE ENQUIRY STAGE 1: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?
5. THE ENQUIRY STAGE 2: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?
6. THE ENQUIRY STAGE 3: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?
7. THE ENQUIRY STAGE 4: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?
8. THE ENQUIRY STAGE 5: What are the changes in work, home life, popular culture, population and technology in Britain since 1948? When did these changes happen?
9. What links and connections can we make between the changes in British life since 1948?
10. What have been the most important changes since 1948? How are these changes linked?