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History at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

Unit 2: What were homes like a long time ago?

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About this unit

This unit looks at similarities and differences between homes today and homes in the past. Features of buildings, household objects and stories about home life are used to enable children to develop criteria to distinguish old from new, and to learn about life at a time beyond living memory.


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1. What sorts of homes do people live in today?
2. What can we find out from the outside of homes?
3. How were homes long ago different from homes today?
4. What would we find inside people's homes a long time ago?
5. What can we find out about Victorian or Edwardian times from looking at household objects?
6. How can we turn the 'home corner' into a bathroom, kitchen or living room from a long time ago?