How have explorers changed the world?
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How have explorers changed the world?
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain what explorers do
- Name equipment or transport an explorer would need.
- Sequence four photographs from different periods of time.
- Name important explorers (e.g. Christopher Columbus, Dame Ellen MacArthur, Matthew Henson and Mary Kingsley).
- Identify where they travelled and write a sentence about the achievements of one explorer.
- Select the most important events in a historical story.
- Sequence events on a timeline and use this to retell the story.
- Describe what they can see in a photograph.
- Make inferences about what a person in an image could be saying and ask questions to further their understanding.
- Recall information about past and presentation exploration.
- Understand events in relation to the present day and compare how exploration has changed over time.
- Describe how an explorer is significant and how they impacted events or people’s ideas.
- Present significant people using a coat of arms.
Suggested prior learning
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Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: What is an explorer?
- To know what an explorer is.
Lesson 2: Where have explorers travelled and when?
- To recognise the achievements of different explorers using photographs.
Lesson 3: Who was Christopher Columbus and what did he do?
- To record events on a timeline.
Lesson 4: Who was Matthew Henson and what did he do?
- To use photographs to find out about the past.
Lesson 5: How has exploration changed?
- To recognise changes and similarities (continuities) over time.
Lesson 6: How can we remember them?
- To describe the significance of some people and events within history.
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Key knowledge
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Knowledge organiser – History Y1: How have explorers changed the world?
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Vocabulary display: How have explorers changed the world?
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