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Louis Braille

This history scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record information about the life and work of Louis Braille who had a significant impact on the development of communication in the world. The class can build artefacts to display in a museum to illustrate the life and work of Louis Braille.

Explore and record information about the life and work of Louis Braille who had a significant impact on the development of communication in the world

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Lesson One : Childhood

Explore and record information about the background history at the beginning of Louis Braille’s career to show some of the things that happened during his childhood

Lesson Two : Using Braille

Investigate and record some of reasons for the development of the Braille system in the past that is used by blind people to communicate information

Lesson Three : Braille Alphabet

Explore, describe and model how Braille is produced and used to support people who are blind in the world so that they can access information when reading texts

Lesson Four : Interview Questions

Identify and record a selection of research questions that can be used to investigate and record information about the life of Louis Braille

Lesson Five : Braille Museum

Investigate how to produce a classroom display as a museum to describe and illustrate the importance of the life of Louis Braille in the past and his affect on other people

Lesson Six : Museum Tour

Practise conducting tours around a class museum to explain the importance of the life of Louis Braille in the past and his impact on the lives of others

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