Activity 5: Transport through time

Using photographs and stories to compare modes of transport from the past with the present day.

Learning goal

  • To compare modes of transport of the past with the present.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world

  • Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.

Characteristics of effective learning:

  • Playing and exploring.
  • Active learning.
  • Creating and thinking critically.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

Understanding the World

ELG: Past and Present

  • Understand the past through settings, characters, and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.

Before the lesson

Print in advance

Activity

Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with:

  • Reminding the children of the new vocabulary introduced via the story.
  • Using the book to refer to the images so that the children have something to help them.
  • Prompting by asking the children if the image they are sorting looks like a vehicle from the story or if it is a vehicle we still see & use today.

Vocabulary

  • aeroplane

  • bicycle

  • car

  • horse-drawn cart

  • motorbike

  • steam train

  • train

Curriculum opportunities

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Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
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