Y1/2 (B): What is history?
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Create a personal timeline by ordering three events correctly on a simple timeline.
- Use the vocabulary ‘before’ and ‘after’ when talking about their timeline.
- Recognise what is similar and different between the ‘past’ and ‘now’.
- Talk about three holiday memories.
- Place one holiday memory on a timeline.
- Identify how people spend their holidays differently.
- Describe what photographs tell us about holidays in the past.
- Identify similarities and differences between holidays in the past and now.
- Order photographs on a timeline.
- Ask one question about holidays in the past.
- Find answers to simple questions about the past.
- Identify features of holidays in the past.
- Describe what holidays in the past were like and compare them to now.
- Find similarities and differences.
- Use time vocabulary to talk about their memories.
- Recognise similarities and differences between their lives now and in the past.
Suggested prior learning
Y1/2 (A): How did we learn to fly?
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Y1/2 (B): Lesson 1: What is history?
- To recognise the order events happen.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 2: What is a holiday?
- To identify that people spend their holidays in different ways.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 3: What were holidays like in the past?
- To compare photographs from the past.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 4: How can we find out more about holidays in the past?
- To find out about the past from people who were there.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 5: How have holidays changed?
- To compare holidays from the past and present.
Y1/2 (B): Lesson 6: What are my favourite holiday memories?
- To recall life events.
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Unit resources

History
Knowledge organiser – History Y1/2 (B): What is history?
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "What is history?".

History
Vocabulary display – History Y1/2 (B): What is history?
A display version of the key vocabulary from the 'What is history?' unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
- Maths: Measurement
- Art and design
- English: Spoken language