History Teaching Resources

Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in history in Key Stage One covering different aspects of life in the past including the lives of significant figures who had a major impact on life in Britain and the development of a range of technology

  • Castle Life

    Castle Life

    Identify, describe and record some of the special ways that castles were built and inhabited by different groups of people in the past

  • Grace Darling

    Grace Darling

    Investigate and record how life was different in the past from today by exploring the story of Grace Darling and the rescue of the Forfarshire

  • Great Fire of London

    Great Fire of London

    Investigate, describe and record information about some of the historical events surrounding the Great Fire of London that occurred in the seventieth century

  • Trains

    Trains

    Explore and illustrate how travel has changed since the past through the invention and development of trains from steam to electric technologies

  • Contractions Word Sums

    Contractions Word Sums

    Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair

  • Fraction Halves

    Fraction Halves

    Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations

  • Weather Postcards

    Weather Postcards

    Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

  • Kitchen Masses

    Kitchen Masses

    Identify and record how to measure, calculate and compare the masses of different things used in a kitchen working with units in grams and kilograms