Lesson Three – Special Places

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to gets the children to practise using photographs to identify and record comparisons between different locations in the local area over a number of time periods.

The class can explain and model how to use a primary source to identify and record how a particular location has changed from the past such as the conversion of a church into flats.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using photographs to identify and record comparisons between different locations in the local area over a number of time periods

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how locations and buildings might change and develop over time and a template to select and record how some locations have changed in the local area over time when working with primary sources.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use photographs to make comparisons between different locations and time periods.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition. 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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