Comparing Victorian toys and modern day toys.

KS1 History Toys Complete Unit

Thankyou for looking at my bundle of resources. Lesson 1- To find out about toys and explain how we find out about the past. Lesson 2 - To know about toys in the 20th Century Lesson 3 - Comparing Victorian toys and modern day toys. Lesson 4 - To recognise how toys have changed over time. Throughout the lessons children will look at historical sources and discuss which sources are best for particular areas of learning. In lesson 1 - Finding out about toys and explaining how we find out about the past. In this lesson children will start with a physical warm up where they will show their preference to two items (one being a toy) . This will lead into a discussion about what a toy is and what children's favourite is. Children will interview each other and proceed to write up their answers. The teacher will then show children a toy from the past. They will generate questions to ask the toy and then discuss how we can find our answers. lesson 2 - To know about toys in the 20th century Children will start the lesson by reflecting on their prior learning and vocabulary. Throughout all of their toys lessons children will be actively thinking of historical sources of information. Considering what is a good source of information and what might not be the best e.g children will think about how they aren’t a good expert group for toys from the 20th century as they weren’t alive during this era. Todays focus of historical information will be the internet. Children will be shown a basic timeline of toys popular in the 20th century created by the teachers research from the internet. Children will then go on to do a focus research on lego. Children will be guided creating useful questions. Children will final go onto present the facts they have learnt on a lego brick. With a chilli challenge and helping hands support to ensure all children maximise their learning. Lesson 3 - To compare Victorian and modern day toys In this lesson children will start with a warm up where they will think about the question - If you could make a toy what would it be? Children will rewind on their prior learning of modern day toys and 20th century toys. Children will continue to look at historical sources of evidence. Children will look at books about the Victorians to answer four questions. This will provide a general gist of when the Victorian era was, what Victorian life was like for the rich and poor and what schooling looked like. Children will be guided (in a ks1 manner) to make inferences about what Victorian toys might be like. Children will then learn about Victorian toys through an exploration of actual toys (pictures/videos may be needed if you can’t access Victorian toys) and then a teacher led input about the toys. Finally, children will complete small steps which will support them to independently make simple comparisons in their independent application. Lesson 4 - To recognise how toys have changed over time. Today children will be introduced to a Victorian toy maker. They will start by using clues such as girl and boys toys to identify what era the toy maker came from. Using their prior knowledge on Victorian toys. Children will continue to reflect back on prior knowledge when they learn the maker is going to travel forward to modern times. Children will reflect on times such as the 20th century. The toy maker will then show children a toy and will explain why they think its a good toy (the toy is completely against modern times such as attitude and technology) Children will be taught about why things have changed. MSTA - Materials, safety , technology and attitudes. Children will write a letter to the toy maker explaining why the toy is unsuitable.