Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how passengers travelled in steam trains in the past, a shared reading text to investigate what it was like to travel by steam trains and a worksheet to design and produce posters using persuasive writing to persuade families to take a trip on the Flying Scotsman.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record the history of a famous train that was used for travel by passengers in the past.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore and illustrate how travel has changed since the past through the invention and development of trains from steam to electric technologies. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.