History Unit Planning Guidance: Buckets and Spades (The Seaside Then and Now).

History Unit Planning Guidance.

Year 2 Summer Term - Buckets and Spades.

Events beyond living memory or places in their locality – the seaside then and now.

In this theme, children learn about holidays in the past compared with holidays now. They will consider events and places within their own living memory compared with events and places beyond their own memory. They may also consider other significant historical events in their own locality.

Embedding historical enquiry, chronology and communication within a sequence of learning Skills have been specifically identified for this unit from Key Learning in history.

This updated, expanded unit contains new ideas and approaches for planning history through a sequence of lesson ideas with more detailed guidance on historical enquiry, chronology, knowledge, understanding, vocabulary and communicating findings.

Comprehensive lists of suggested texts and direct links to specific film clips and
resources are contained within the unit.

This unit will help provide teachers with a wealth of creative strategies that reinforce, enhance and transform learning within an effective teaching sequence.

Cross curricular links
Although this unit will stand alone, it can be planned to run alongside a Science unit based on materials where children investigate suitable properties for making buckets, hats and helmets, trampolines and sandcastles, and it could provide a focus for writing explanation texts to explore why and how materials are suitable, or not. In English, poems could be linked to the history context of seaside holidays in the past where children include details about objects or ideas such as ice cream, the promenade or souvenirs. In Art and Design, children could work independently or in groups to create small or large scale collages, using materials collected and chosen to suit the theme. Many contemporary artists use the seaside to inspire their works of art including Abigail Mill, Jayne Huskisson and Serena Hall.