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Louis Braille
This history scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record information about the life and work of Louis Braille who had a significant impact on the development of communication in the world. The class can build artefacts to display in a museum to illustrate the life and work of Louis Braille.
Explore and record information about the life and work of Louis Braille who had a significant impact on the development of communication in the world
Lesson One : Childhood
Explore and record information about the background history at the beginning of Louis Braille’s career to show some of the things that happened during his childhood
Lesson Two : Using Braille
Investigate and record some of reasons for the development of the Braille system in the past that is used by blind people to communicate information
Lesson Three : Braille Alphabet
Explore, describe and model how Braille is produced and used to support people who are blind in the world so that they can access information when reading texts
Lesson Four : Interview Questions
Identify and record a selection of research questions that can be used to investigate and record information about the life of Louis Braille
Lesson Five : Braille Museum
Investigate how to produce a classroom display as a museum to describe and illustrate the importance of the life of Louis Braille in the past and his affect on other people
Lesson Six : Museum Tour
Practise conducting tours around a class museum to explain the importance of the life of Louis Braille in the past and his impact on the lives of others
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Final Sound /v/
Explore and record the spelling and meaning of some different words that end in the /v/ phoneme sound
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Flower Gallery
Record, edit and label digital images of some of the different flowers and plants that can be found around the school grounds
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Shape Patterns
Identify, describe and classify sets of 2D shapes by their matching properties when used in examples of repeating patterns
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Special Animals
Identify and record how to punctuate sentences correctly using capital letters to describe some different types of animals