History
Schemes of Work

ICT Activity

Unit 1	Year 1
Title: How are our toys different from those in the past?

Ask the children to look at 2 toys, one old and one new. Look at similarities and differences. Use a WP package to create labels for each toy. Could select words for the labels from a prepared word bank.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 1B Using a Word Bank, 1D Labelling and classifying]

Unit 2	Year 1
Title: What were homes like a long time ago?

Ask the children to think about the sorts of homes people live in today. Show them pictures of different sorts of homes. Which are like their home? Which are different? Encourage them to talk about homes they are familiar with. Ask them to think about why people live in different sorts of homes. Prepare a template which presents the children with pictures of different homes. Ask the children to place the correct labels on the pictures by clicking and dragging.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 1D Labelling and classifying]

Look at homes near the school. Using a simple painting program create a picture of their house or another house from the area around the school.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 1A An introduction to modelling]

Use a CD-ROM find pictures of different homes.

Visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/1900house

As an extension to unit 2, visit http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/museum.htm to look at how shops have changed.

Unit 3	Year 1/2
Title: What were seaside holidays like in the past?

After looking at pictures or photographs of seaside holidays today and in the past, using a simple painting program, create a picture of seaside holiday.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 1A An introduction to modelling]

Arrange for a parent/carer/grandparent to visit the class and tell the children about his or her childhood seaside holidays, using photographs, slides, artefacts and souvenirs to illustrate the story. Ask the children to draw each of the souvenirs brought in by the visitor. Using a WP package ask them to write a caption for their pictures, explaining what information the souvenir provides about seaside holidays in the past.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2A Writing stories: communicating information using text]

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/seaside.htm

Unit 4	Year 2
Title: Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?

Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find pictures of Florence Nightingale.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2C Finding information]

Give the children a template containing a simple version of the story of Florence Nightingale. This should use few adjectives. The story should be broken into separate chapters. Ask the children 1) to make the story more interesting by adding words from the word bank, 2) to give each chapter a title and 3) to create a final chapter of the story called 'Why we remember Florence Nightingale'.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2A Writing stories: communicating information using text]

http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdnight.htm
http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/flo2.htm

Unit 5	Year 2
Title: How do we know about the Great Fire of London?

Using a paint program, create a picture showing something important that they have learnt about the fire.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2B Creating pictures]

Using a template prepared by the teacher, match beginnings and ends of sentences about the fire. [E.g. The fire spread because of ... the direction of the wind. The people escaped to churches because ... they were built of stone. The fire went out because ... the wind stopped.]

Type a label for their picture.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2A Writing stories: communicating information using text]

Unit 6a	Year 3/4
Title: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? A Roman case study.

Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find out about Roman life, the Celts or Boudicca. Use a WP program which allows them to combine text and graphics to present their findings, inserting images from clipart, CD-ROMs, the Internet or from another file.

Create the front page of a Roman or Celtic Newspaper in which the main story is Boudicca's revolt.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3A Combining text and graphics]

http://www.brims.co.uk/romans/index.html
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/roman/index.htm
http://www.hhhh.org/maia/boudiccatxt.html

Unit 6b	Year 3/4
Title: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? An Anglo-Saxon case study.

Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find out about Anglo-Saxon life. Give children different aspects to focus on and help them to come up with a structured list of questions to answer. Use DTP or create a multimedia presentation to present what they have found out.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3A Combining text and graphics]

http://bay8.bjt.net/~melanie/anglo-sa.html (Broken link?)

Unit 6c	Year 3/4
Title: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? A Viking case study.

Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find out about Viking settlements. Give children different aspects to focus on and help them to come up with a structured list of questions to answer. Use DTP to create a multimedia presentation to present what they have found out.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3A Combining text and graphics]

http://viking.no/e/index.html
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/vikings.htm

Unit 7	Year 3/4
Title: Why Did Henry VIII marry six times?

Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find portraits of Henry VIII and his wives. 1) Choose a picture of Henry, insert it in a WP document and annotate it or add a description underneath describing Henry's character. 2) Choose a picture of one of his wives and underneath add a piece of text stating the reasons why Henry married her.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3A Combining text and graphics]

Produce newspaper articles bringing together the key points of this unit. Possibly date the paper on the day after the death of Henry. Give each group a different wife or marriage to focus on. This activity could be extended by including advertising or a letters page.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences]

Create a Database of Henry's wives.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3C Introduction to Databases]

http://www.history.school-master.co.uk
http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/ttss.htm

Unit 8	Year 3/4
Title: What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times?

Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find out about the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times. Record what they find out in a table or spreadsheet organised in two columns Rich and Poor with sections for different headings [e.g. houses, belongings, food, health, clothes, leisure etc.]

Create a multimedia presentation to summarise what they have learnt about the rich and poor in Tudor times to answer the key questions: What were the advantages of being rich in Tudor times? What were the advantages of being poor in Tudor times? Would you have liked to live at this time as a rich or poor person?
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences]

http://www.history.school-master.co.uk
http://schoolsite.edex.net.uk/49/Tudors.html

Unit 9	Year 3/4
Title: What was it like for children in the Second World War?

Possible ICT Activity: Search a CD-ROM or the Internet to find out what it was like in the Second World War. Visit news web sites to find out about areas of conflict in the world today. It may be possible set up an e-mail link with a person or persons who were children during World War 2. The children could then then pose questions to this person or persons about their childhood during the war.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3E E-mail]

Introduce the children to AND and OR searches and take the opportunity to discuss the authenticity of information on the web.

Go the Holnet web site. The Second World War section has a number of prepared activities, all downloadable, for Y3/4 and Y5/6. The activities are designed to meet the three levels of expected outcome of this QCA Scheme of Work
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions using complex searches]

Unit 10	Year 3/4
Title: What can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived?

Possible ICT Activity: Search a CD-ROM or Internet to find three pictures of a topic [e.g. farming, art, buildings etc.]. Ask them to decide what they know for certain from their pictures, what they can guess, and what they still need to find out. They then create a multimedia presentation to summarise their findings. They could then use reference books, CD-ROM encyclopaedia and the Internet to find out more about their topic. Introduce the children to AND and OR searches and take the opportunity to discuss the authenticity of information on the web.

Find out about different Pharaohs.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences]
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions using complex searches]

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Unit 11	Year 5/6
Title: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?

Search a CD-ROM encyclopaedia or the Internet to find out about Lord Shaftesbury and Dr Barnardo and how they helped children. Introduce the children to AND and OR searches and take the opportunity to discuss the authenticity of information on the web. Create a multimedia presentation to present their findings.

Go the Holnet web site. The Victorian section includes maps,
documents and census data about Lewisham and the 11 other London Boroughs, exploring life in London and the pupils' local area in the 1890s.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences]
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions using complex searches]

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/victoria.htm

Unit 12	Year 5/6
Title: How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?

Possible ICT Activity:Using the census returns of 1841 and 1891 for the local area enter the information into a database. Using the database carry out searches to investigate changes in the area that occurred between 1841 and 1891 [e.g. Have people's occupations changed?] An example of such a database, so far with only the 1891data and developed by Rushey Green Primary School, can be downloaded here (Apple Works or Excel).
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5B analysing data and asking questions using complex searches]

Unit 13	Year 5/6
Title: How has life in Britain changed changed since 1948?

In groups carry out an enquiry in to an topic area [e.g. population of Britain] considering the most important changes since 1948 and when they happened. CD-ROMs and the Internet could be among the sources of information used. Introduce the children to AND and OR searches and take the opportunity to discuss the authenticity of information on the web.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions using complex searches]

Create a multimedia presentation to present their findings.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences].

Set up e-mail links with people old enough to talk about changes in Britain since 1948. Pose questions to these people via e-mail to assist with their enquiry.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3B E-mail]

Unit 14	Year 5/6
Title: Who were the ancient Greeks?

Ask the children to find out about different Greek gods and enter the information into a database.

Use a variety of sources including CD-ROMs and the Internet to find out about the Olympic Games. Present their findings as a multimedia presentation.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences]

[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions using complex searches]

Using a paint package to create illustrations in the style of paintings on Greek pottery to illustrate the story of the Battle of Marathon.

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/gcontent.htm
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics

Unit 15	Year 5/6
Title: How do we use ancient Greek ideas today?

Ask the children to find as many words that are Greek in origin and produce a database of their findings.

Using a variety of sources including CD-ROMs and the Internet, find out about ancient Greek scholars and match them to their contributions to knowledge.

Unit 16	Year 5/6
Title: How can we find out about the Indus Valley civilisation?

Search CD-ROMs and the Internet to find artefacts from the Indus Valley civilisation.

Create a multimedia presentation to summarise what they have learnt about the Indus Valley civilisation.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 6A Multimedia presentation]

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Indialife.html#INDUS

Unit 17	Year 2
Title: What are we remembering on Remembrance Day?

Visit the local war memorial. Use a paint package to create a picture of the war memorial.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2B Creating pictures]

http://www.holnet.org.uk/

Unit 18	Year 3/4
Title: What was it like to live here in the past?

Visit a local old building. After the visit use a variety of reference materials including CD-ROMs and the Internet to find out what it would have been like to live and work in that building in the past.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Building on Unit 2C: Finding information.]

Unit 19	Year 5/6
Title: What were the effects of Tudor exploration?

Search CD-ROM encyclopaedias and the Internet to find the names and countries of origin of European explorers who first sailed to countries first appearing on maps dating from Tudor times.

Using a variety of reference materials including CD-ROMs and the Internet, research one aspect of the daily life of sailors in Tudor times.

Visit the National Maritime Museum web site at http://www.nmm.ac.uk and using the information about Drake, decide what his reasons were for his voyage around the world.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 6D Using the Internet to search large databases and to interpret information]

Unit 20	Year 5/6
Title: What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person?

Use the Internet to find pictures of John Lennon and to find more information about the Beatles.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 6D Using the Internet to search large databases and to interpret information]

Create a Multimedia presentation representing John Lennon's life and achievements and showing the impact he had on this period of history.
[ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 6A Multimedia presentation]