Learning objective
- To investigate what schools were like in the 1900s.
Success criteria
- I can make some inferences from historical information.
- I
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Arrange the children into pairs and display the Presentation: Brain dump. Ask the children to tell their partner everything they can remember about what school was like for people their parents or grandparents’ age. Take feedback.
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In this unit
Assessment - History Y2: How was school different in the past?
Lesson 1: Were schools different in the past?
Lesson 2: How have schools changed within living memory?
Lesson 3: How were schools different in the 1900s?
Lesson 4: How have schools changed?
Lesson 5: What is similar and different about schools now and in the past?
Lesson 6: Would you prefer to have gone to school in the past?
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Last update: 11th March, 2025
