Lesson Five – Firefighting

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to describe some of the different ways of preventing and stopping the spread of the Great Fire in London during the seventeenth century.

The class can select and list some of the ways that the fire could have been stopped from spreading throughout London including the use of pulling down houses and changes to the weather.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to describe some of the different ways of preventing and stopping the spread of the Great Fire in London during the seventeenth century

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different ways of preventing the Great Fire of London during the seventeenth century and a template to select and record ways of preventing and stopping the spread of the Great Fire in London.

The interactive presentation gets the children to suggest some of the different ways that the Great Fire could have been prevented from spreading throughout London during the 17th century.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to investigate, describe and record information about some of the historical events surrounding the Great Fire of London that occurred in the seventieth century. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.

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