Lesson Five – Survivors

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to suggest and record how the survivors from the shipwreck of the Forfarshire might have responded to their rescue by the Darling family in the past.
The class can select and ask a range of different key questions to model how to understand and explain what happened during the sea rescue that was performed by the Darling family.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to suggest and record how the survivors from the shipwreck of the Forfarshire might have responded to their rescue by the Darling family in the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe some of the things that happened during an event in the past and templates to select and record what different people might have said during the rescue of survivors from the Forfarshire in the past.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how the survivors from the shipwreck might have responded to the rescue by the Darling family.
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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