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.
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Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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Local History
Develop cross-curricular skills by exploring the history and location of different buildings found in the local area
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Lesson Puzzles
Create engaging and exciting lessons by devising a series of puzzles to match different learning objectives for a range of curriculum subjects
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History Days
Experience and understand different time periods in the past using drama and role-play classroom activities
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School Trips
Prepare for and manage a school trip to support curriculum learning in different subjects and topics
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World Explorers
Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world
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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
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Space Flight
Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world
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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