Personal & Family History Teaching Resources for Year 1
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Build a Family Tree – Template
A versatile resource to use when exploring family history with your students.
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All About My Family Mini Booklet
A template for students to complete all about their family.
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All About My Family - Family Tree Project
Use a printable set of family tree templates and graphic organizers to help you students learn about their families.
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A Very Special Object – Worksheet
Explore the role that objects play in communicating the stories of our past with this simple worksheet.
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Exploring My Local Community - History Word Wall Vocabulary
20 vocabulary cards about exploring the local community.
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Being Careful with a New Baby Poster
A poster explaining to students how to behave around a new baby.
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New Baby Poster
A poster encouraging students to talk about their feelings when there is a new baby in the family.
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Exploring Yesterday and Today – History Word Wall Vocabulary
27 exploring yesterday and today vocabulary cards.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An open-ended assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how toys, modes of transport and communication devices and their uses have changed over time.
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Daily Life - Then and Now Unit Plan
This History unit covers a range of concepts relating to how daily life of the present is different from the past and how it could change in the future.
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Identifying and Classifying Toys
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify an everyday object as a toy and describe how it is used in daily life.
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Let's Communicate!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how we communicate with others.
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Family Life - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare daily family life from the past with the present.
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Transport - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare past and present transport and describe how it has changed over time.
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A Life with Transport
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify different types of modern transport and how they are used.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate how their world is different from the past and how it might change in the future.
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Toys From the Past
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare toys from the past with the present.
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Communicating Through Time
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how communication devices have changed over time.
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Toys From Today
A 60 minute lesson in which students will describe the features of a present day toy.