What is Chronology?

This lesson works perfectly to introduce chronology with Year 7 and sets the students up for the rest of their History adventure be it 3, 5 or 7!

This is a full lesson and comes with my students’ seal of approval.

Introduction: Start with a game, get the students straight into thinking and talking about history

Literacy: Directly teach the key words, with a visual example

Historiography: Introduce the students to timelines, with them guessing what happened at the two yers

Main task: Students are given a series of events (from across the KS3 and 4 curriculum), they then work together to put them in chronological order.

Explanation: Full screen pictures for each event, with year and the name of the event for students to self-check their timeline. Time for teacher insight into each event and to ask class for their ideas.

Historiography: Students then draw their own timeline - can add the pictures with each event. (Grid with pictures of events is included in the PowerPoint)

Wonder: Students then write about which of these events they most want to learn about and why. Useful exercise for finding out what your students want to learn!

I always enjoy delivering this lesson, and I hope you will, too!