Lesson Five – Antarctic Crossing
This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise writing diary entries to describe and record what happened during Shackleton’s explorations across the Antarctic in the past.
The class can identify the sequence of events as to how Shackleton and his crew crossed the Antarctic after their ship sank into the sea to seek rescue on an island.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing diary entries to describe and record what happened during Shackleton’s explorations across the Antarctic in the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the weather and climate in the Antarctic, a shared reading text to describe the sequence of events in an important event in the past and a template to record what happened in the story of Shackleton’s crossing of the Antarctic.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write diary entries to describe and record Shackleton’s explorations across the Antarctic.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how life was the same or different in the past by finding out about a famous explorer who journeyed to the Antarctic. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
-
Garden Numbers
Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers
-
Summer Stories
Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer
-
Fraction Numbers
Investigate how to use concrete equipment, diagrams and calculations to identify and record the matching fractions of different numbers
-
Family Holiday Lists
Explore how to compile sentences punctuated using commas to list some of the special things that families can use, complete and experience on a holiday