Lesson Three – Holidays Yesterday

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to use primary sources to identify and describe seaside holidays that families experienced in the past using example photographs.

The class can practise making lists of objects and events that can be seen in different photos depicting a family holiday to the seaside that was experienced in the past.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to use primary sources to identify and describe seaside holidays that families experienced in the past using example photographs

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how families holidayed at the seaside in the past, a worksheet to list objects and events that families used and experienced on seaside holidays in the past and a template to use sentences and illustrations to describe what might have happened in the past when families holidayed at the seaside.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe seaside holidays that families experienced in the past using photographs as primary sources.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today. 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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