Lesson Five – From Old to New

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to describe and compare examples of different toys and games from the past and identify some modern day equivalents.

The class can explain and record how families used a range of different toys and games in the past and how someone might play with and use similar toys today.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to describe and compare examples of different toys and games from the past and identify some modern day equivalents

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe and compare toys and games that were owned by families in the past, a table display card to practise using a primary source to investigate and compare artefacts from the past with today and a template to record and compare a range of different toys and games from the past with some modern day equivalents.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to describe and compare some different toys and games from the past and identify some modern day equivalents.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games owned by families have changed and developed over time. 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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