Activity 5: Transport through time

Using photographs and stories to compare modes of transport from the past with the present day.

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Learning goal

  • To compare modes of transport of the past with the present.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world

  • Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.

Characteristics of effective learning:

  • Playing and exploring.
  • Active learning.
  • Creating and thinking critically.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

Understanding the World

ELG: Past and Present

  • Understand the past through settings, characters, and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.

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Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with:

  • Reminding the children of the new vocabulary introduced via the story.
  • Using the book to refer to the images so that the children have something to help them.
  • Prompting by asking the children if the image they are sorting looks like a vehicle from the story or if it is a vehicle we still see & use today.

Vocabulary

  • aeroplane

  • bicycle

  • car

  • horse-drawn cart

  • motorbike

  • steam train

  • train

Curriculum opportunities

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Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
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