Lesson Six – Neil Armstrong

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to select and record information to use in a speech describing Neil Armstrong’s achievements as part of the space race in the past.

The class can explain the consequences of the space race on the development of world history in political and technological terms.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to select and record information to use in a speech describing Neil Armstrong’s achievements as part of the space race in the past

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain the importance of the main events in the space race and a template to structure and format a speech about the achievements of Neil Armstrong as part of the space race in the past.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to select information to use in a speech describing Armstrong’s achievements as part of the space race.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore how the space race in the 1950s and 1960s heralded a number of technological, cultural and political changes and advancements in the world. 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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