ABSTRACT
This case study illustrates the history dimension of an integrated topic, lasting one term, on ‘Buildings’, including class, group and individual work. The long-term plan is shown in Box 10.1. The class teacher was Julie Giles. Long-term plan for history activities showing assessment opportunities https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
Activities
Historical thinking
Assessment opportunities
Activity 1: picture reading
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Activity 2: class story
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Activity 5: collage
Deductions from sources Find out about the past from sources of information
Talk about a picture of a castle
Listen to children talking as they make their collage, to see how they apply information from picture story and reference books to the collage. Take notes
Activity 3: reinforcing ↓ selected vocabulary
Time and change Identify differences between past and present
Listen to children talking as they identify differences between buildings, and daily life in ‘houses now’ and ‘castles then’
Activity 4: draw examples for ‘houses now’ and ‘castles then’ (e.g. doors, windows, cooking, lighting)
Activity 6: listen to story about Robin Hood
Interpretations Beginning to show awareness that the past is represented in different ways
Time and change Place in sequence events in a story
Motive Suggest reasons Why people in the past acted as they did
Ask children in small groups
Do you think Robin Hood is a true story?
Can you remember what happened in the story?
Why do you think Robin Hood killed Guy of Guisborne? Why was Little John arrested? Why did Robin Hood rescue Little John?
