Lesson Three – Grace Darling’s Home

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record the background history to the story of the famous sea rescue that was performed by Grace Darling and her father in the past.
The class can identify and sequence some of the different events in the life of the Darling family into the correct chronological order to illustrate their life in the past.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record the background history to the story of the famous sea rescue that was performed by Grace Darling and her father in the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how lighthouses are different from other buildings, a shared reading text to explore the background history to the story of the sea rescue performed by Grace Darling and a set of cards to record and describe the function of different parts of a lighthouse to aid shipping.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record the background history to the story of the sea rescue performed by Grace Darling.
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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