Key Stage One : History : Grace Darling : Lesson One – Lighthouses


This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a diary entry to describe the range of jobs and routines performed by a lighthouse keeper. The class can make comparisons as to how lighthouses were operated in the past from today.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to plan and write a diary entry to describe the range of jobs and routines performed by a lighthouse keeper

Learning Objectives

Identify differences between ways of life at different times. Find out the way of life of people in the more distant past.

Learning Outcomes

I can say how a job was performed in the past. I can write in character to describe how people worked many years ago.

Lighthouses

Teaching sequence to help the children plan and write a diary entry to describe the range of jobs and routines performed by a lighthouse keeper

Lighthouses

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children describe the location and function of lighthouses in the world

Lighthouse Jobs

Activity cards to help the children identify some of the jobs that are required to run and manage a lighthouse

Lighthouse Keeper Diary

Template to help the children structure and write a diary to describe jobs that are required to run and manage a lighthouse

Lighthouse Keeper Jobs (support)

Template to help the children name one of the jobs that are required to run and manage a lighthouse

Lighthouses

Interactive activity to help the children plan and write a diary entry to describe the range of jobs and routines performed by a lighthouse keeper

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to plan and write a diary entry to describe the range of jobs and routines performed by a lighthouse keeper

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