Explain terms such as unification and absolute power.
Identify the skills and behaviours of leaders that contributed to achieving a goal.
Describe and assess the impact of beliefs on change.
Identify the significance of trade routes.
Make deductions and inferences from sources.
Apply criteria to decide and explain historical significance.
Describe how and why interpretations are different.
Make observations and explain historical achievements.
This unit prepares the children for the challenges of Key stage 3 History. It gives them the historical skills of inference, extracting information from sources, evaluating historical figures and the opportunity, like historians, to decide their criteria for significance. The activities are well-suited to children entering Key Stage 3.
Suggested prior learning
How have children’s lives changed?
This assumes that you are following Kapow Primary’s History Long-term plan – standard.