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Lesson Five – Exhibition Research

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to research and prepare exhibits to include in a class presentation about changes to the local area over time. The class can produce information posters to record their research about the history of the local community.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to research and prepare exhibits to include in a class presentation about changes to the local area over time

Learning Objectives

Explore the experiences of men, women and children in who lived in the local area in the past. Select and record information relevant to the focus of the enquiry.

Learning Outcomes

I can describe what the lives of people in local area were like in the. I can select and present information to explain how the local area has changed over time.

Exhibition Research

Teaching sequence to help the children research and prepare exhibits to include in a class presentation about changes to the local area over time

Exhibition Questions

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify effective questions that can be used to investigate life in the past in the local area

Research Questions

Table display card to help the children select effective questions that can be used to research the local area in the past

Exhibition Research

Interactive activity to help the children research and prepare exhibits to include in a class presentation about changes to the local area over time

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to research and prepare exhibits to include in a class presentation about changes to the local area over time

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