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 Defense

    Castle Defense

    Investigate and record different ways that castles were constructed and located in the past to provide protection to the inhabitants and local community

  • 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

  • Louis Braille

    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

  • Seaside Holidays

    Seaside Holidays

    Describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today

  • Trains

    Trains

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

  • Shape Matching

    Shape Matching

    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys

  • Toy Masses

    Toy Masses

    Explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than

  • Seaside Holidays

    Seaside Holidays

    Describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today