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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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Outcomes

Section 1: What sorts of homes do people live in today?
Children:
  • recognise and name different types of homes

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Section 2: What can we find out from the outside of homes?
Children:
  • identify key external features common to homes, eg windows, doors, chimneys
  • describe and draw details of different features of a home

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Section 3: How were homes long ago different from homes today?
Children:
  • describe the features of a home built a long time ago
  • identify some differences between two homes built at different times

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Section 4: What would we find inside people's homes a long time ago?
Children:
  • identify the rooms in a home from long ago
  • describe, using appropriate vocabulary, features, furniture and household objects from homes from long ago

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Section 5: What can we find out about Victorian or Edwardian times from looking at household objects?
Children:
  • describe the characteristics of a household object from long ago
  • use clues to infer the use of the object
  • talk about aspects of home life long ago

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Section 6: How can we turn the 'home corner' into a bathroom, kitchen or living room from a long time ago?
Children:
  • 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

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Sections in this unit

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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?