Key Stage One : History : Grace Darling : Lesson Two – Sea Dangers


This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record some of the dangers and hazards associated with working and living by the sea. The children can make posters outlining some of the dangers that ships and boats might face when out at sea.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and record some of the dangers and hazards associated with working and living by the sea

Learning Objectives

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

Learning Outcomes

I can say how lighthouses were controlled by keepers in the past. I can say how life in the past is the same or different from today.

Sea Dangers

Teaching sequence to help the children explore and record some of the dangers and hazards associated with working and living by the sea

Sea State

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe some of the different states of the sea

Sea State

Activity cards to help the children identify and order a set of words that can be used to describe different state of the sea

Changing Sea

Template to help the children record and describe some of the dangers and hazards to shipping from different sea states

Sea Word Bank

Vocabulary word bank to help the children describe different sea states that might affect ships and boats on the water

Sea Dangers

Interactive activity to help the children explore and record some of the dangers and hazards associated with working and living by the sea

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and record some of the dangers and hazards associated with working and living by the sea

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