This resource pack is designed to illustrate the passing of time and highlight significant events, discoveries and inventions of the past. It is designed to demonstrate how technology has made huge progress in the last 100 years and demonstrate how many of today’s technologies are a result of the past. This resource pack is specifically designed to be a visual stimulus to promote discussion and thought about the passing of time.

These interactive History resources have been developed from document-based resources on CD available from Cardiff Castle. (Contact Education Officer: Elizabeth Stevens 029 2087 8110) It is assumed that these activities will be used in conjunction with a visit to Cardiff Castle but they could be also be used on their own to support work in your school. The topic is split into four areas; The Arab Room Floor; Servants; The Bute Dowry and Armour through Ages with an interactive introduction to each lesson. The lessons can be viewed on an interactive white board or a standalone computer.

This resource pack introduces pupils to different kinds of transport including motor cars and aeroplanes.

This resource looks at ships through the ages and how different periods travelled. This covers ships and boats from Celtic crafts to nuclear submarines.

This resource pack aims to help pupils to: consider in detail the quality and purpose of what they read extend and enrich their vocabulary through activities focusing on words and their meaning explore, develop and examine ideas write a poem in response to stimuli. The activities have cross curricular links to History – Life in the 20th Century