Lesson Six – News Report
This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise writing and presenting a news report to record facts and information about what happened during Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic in the past.
The class can identify and illustrate the sequence of events as to how Shackleton and his crew were rescued after they became stranded in the Antarctic.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing and presenting a news report to record facts and information about what happened during Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic in the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the sequence of events that occurred during Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic and differentiated templates to record what happened during Shackleton’s crossing of the Antarctic in a news report and storyboard.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write a news report to record facts and information about Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic in the past.
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.
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