History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 1)

Unit 2: What were homes like a long time ago?
Section 6: How can we turn the 'home corner' into a bathroom, kitchen or living room from a long time ago?

Objectives

Children should learn:

to apply their knowledge and understanding of home life a long time ago
to communicate, through role play what they have learnt about home life

Activities

Outcomes

Children:

Ask the children to help you transform the home corner. Encourage them to use all the information they have, eg pictures of rooms, their drawings of homes and objects. What sort of window do we need? How should the room be lit? What sort of heating should there be? What objects would you find there?

With the children's help, make a plan of the home corner. Ask them to select appropriate objects and place them in the home corner. Talk about what it would have been like to live in that room in the past. Encourage the children to role-play using the objects.

become familiar with key features of a room in a home long ago
show understanding of an aspect of home life in the past through role-play
use language related to the past and to home life

Points to note

There are many displays of home life of previous generations in local museums. A visit would provide an appropriate introduction or ending to this unit.

The home corner could be set up like this for children to play in over a period of time. This would provide opportunities for them to develop and consolidate their understanding.

This activity is likely to work well if the children have had experience of a museum visit during which they role-played life in Victorian or Edwardian times.

This activity provides opportunities to make links with Unit 1C 'Sorting and using materials' from the QCA science scheme of work.

Sections in this unit

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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.


	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?