Activity 2: Past and present

Making simple observations and deciding whether photographs depict the past.

Learning goal

EYFS outcomes

Before the lesson

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Activity

Support and challenge

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

  • Using audio playback devices so that children can listen to the instructions and know how to complete the activity (audio playback devices allow practitioners or children to record a message and listen to it back with just the click of a button).
  • Encouraging the children to give more than one reason why they think a photograph is from the past or present and use time vocabulary confidently (a long time ago, then, now, in the past, etc.).

Vocabulary

  • a long time ago

  • history

  • new

  • now

  • old

  • past

  • present

  • then

Curriculum opportunities

Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
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