Lesson Six – Dear Grace Darling
This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a letter in character to explore and record information about an historical event in the past when the Darling family rescued people from a shipwreck.
The class can suggest and record answers to questions to understand the history surrounding the rescue of the Forfarshire survivors in the past.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write a letter in character to explore and record information about an historical event in the past when the Darling family rescued people from a shipwreck
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify questions to ask characters involved in an historical event from the past and a template to plan and write a letter in character to explore the sequence of things happening in an historical event from the past.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record information about an historical event in the past when the Darling family rescued peopled from a shipwreck.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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