A list of ideas for planning cross-curricular lessons based around a history topic. Included are ideas of how this could be linked to English, D.T, Art, Science, History, Geography, Music and Computer Science. Areas included so far: Battle of Britain Nottingham - A local history study

Three lessons that focus on learning about Rousseau before recreating one of his pieces or an image from the rainforest in his style. Within the lessons is a discussion about the art and a focus on some key terms before children then pick which image they want to recreate, initially in pencil. The lessons then move on to evaluating their first design and recreating the image using different art resources before a final evaluation of this in the third lesson, whilst recapping the first lesson knowledge.

A fully planned and resourced lesson that focuses on Nottingham Castle being burnt down in 1831. The lesson introduces the reasons why, discussing some of the conditions that had resulted from the Industrial Revolution and the Duke's refusal to help enlarge the electorate through a reform act. This then moves on to children, in groups, recreating an iconic image of the castle on fire before finishing the lesson by joining pieces together and seeing what happened next with the castle. This is the final lesson of a six lesson sequence focussing on the history of Nottingham, particularly with focus to the castle, that has been written for KS2 children with the planning, resources and presentation all included.