Teaching Ideas for History

Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for history.

  • Topic Launches

    Topic Launches

    Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom

  • Topic Tree

    Topic Tree

    Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research

  • Local History

    Local History

    Develop cross-curricular skills by exploring the history and location of different buildings found in the local area

  • Lesson Puzzles

    Lesson Puzzles

    Create engaging and exciting lessons by devising a series of puzzles to match different learning objectives for a range of curriculum subjects

  • History Days

    History Days

    Experience and understand different time periods in the past using drama and role-play classroom activities

  • School Trips

    School Trips

    Prepare for and manage a school trip to support curriculum learning in different subjects and topics

  • World Explorers

    World Explorers

    Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world

  • Story Library

    Story Library

    Identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing

  • Space Flight

    Space Flight

    Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world

  • Farm Graphs

    Farm Graphs

    Identify and illustrate how to organise information related to different farm topics on a block graph using questions to query the presented data