Learning objective
- To identify how exploring has changed over time.
Success criteria
- I can remember information about past and present-day
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National curriculum
History
The
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Cross-curricular links
Curriculum links
English
Writing – composition
Pupils should
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Show the Presentation: Polar explorers. Ask the children to imagine they are explorers who have been asked to travel urgently to the North Pole. Play the audio with sound effects to set the scene. In pairs, give them two minutes to decide what they would need to take with them.
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support:
- Could orally describe or circle similarities and changes in the images.
- Could refer to the Presentation: Explorer fact files for key information during the Main event.
Pupils working at greater depth:
- Could find more than one continuity (similarity) and change, including factors that cannot be seen in the images.
- Should be encouraged to think about why things have changed.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding can:
- Compare images from different time periods.
- Understand that some
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Vocabulary definitions
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determination
Wanting to achieve a difficult goal.
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different
Something that is not like something else.
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In this unit
Assessment - History Y1: How have explorers changed the world?
Lesson 1: What is an explorer?
Lesson 2: Where have explorers travelled and when?
Lesson 3: Who was Christopher Columbus and what did he do?
Lesson 4: Who was Matthew Henson and what did he do?
Lesson 5: How has exploration changed?
Lesson 6: How can we remember them?
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 17th March, 2026
Lesson 1: What is an explorer?
Identifying explorers past and present, what they do and how they travel.
Lesson 4: Who was Matthew Henson and what did he do?
Using photographs to ask and answer questions about the explorer Matthew Henson.
Lesson 2: Where have explorers travelled and when?
Asking questions to find out about the achievements and discoveries of explorers past and present.
Assessment – History Y1: How have explorers changed the world?
Skills catcher for use at the start and/or end of the unit to assess pupil...