F2 medium term plan – Specific area - Understanding of the world :People & Communities
Week
1
2
Learning Goals
Cross curricular links
Main Teaching
Activity / Differentiation
Talks about past
and present events
in their own lives
and those of family
members.
Literacy link –
Information texts
In preparation for this session, children
to ask their Gran/Grandad (or an older
member of the family) to share their
memories of childhood from a
questionnaire. Discuss what questions
we might ask them.
Ask your granny to answer the following questions:
1)
What toys did you play with when you were
the same age as me?
2)
How did you keep in touch with your
friends?
3)
What sort of music did you listen to?
4)
What sort of clothes did you wear?
5)
What was school like?
6)
What sort of food did you eat?
7)
What did your house look like?
8)
Did you have the same things in your house
as we do now?
9)
What year were you born?
Bring back the questionnaires and share the answers
with the class.
As a class look at a picture of an old telephone. As
the following questions: What is it? What could it
have been used for? Why? Note suggestions on
board.
Knows about
similarities and
differences in
relation to places,
objects, materials
and living things.
English – Speaking
and Listening
Discuss toys/games/objects in our
homes. What do we have?
Which of these things do we think our
Grannies did/didn’t have?
Thinking skills – reading images – use a range of
pictures for the children to choose – pair chn up in
mixed abilities to get a range of descriptions.
HOMEWORK
Ask grandparents if they have objects from their
childhoods which may be brought into school for
display. Children to bring in its modern counterpart
3
Knows about
similarities and
differences in
English – Speaking
and Listening/Writing
Recap previous week’s activity. What
do we remember about the objects
from Granny’s time? How were they
Look at pictures of artefacts from the 1960’s and
today eg telephone, television, toys,
What can these tell us about the life of Granny?
Vocabulary /
Resources
Vocabulary
Past
Present
History
Resources
Questionnaires to
send home
Vocabulary
Artefact
Past
Present
Old
New
Modern
Resources
Pictures of objects
from
1950’s/1960’s
Vocabulary
Artefact
Past
relation to places,
objects, materials
and living things.
4
5
Knows about
similarities and
differences in
relation to places,
objects, materials
and living things.
Knows about
similarities and
differences
between
themselves and
others.
different?
What do we think the objects are that
we have brought in?
Mathematics –
sorting
English – Speaking
and Listening/Writing
Look at pictures (and objects) of
artefacts from the 1950’s/1960’s and
today eg telephone, television, toys,
What can these tell us about the life of
Granny? What don’t they tell us?
How are they different from today?
What questions could we ask Granny
to find out about life in the past?
Record questions
What don’t they tell us?
How are they different from today?
What do we have now? How is our life different?
Thinking skills – physically sort the items as a class
using criteria suggested by the chn – discuss if there
are any other ways they could be sorted – encourage
chn to explain their answers.
Sort pictures of now/then into appropriate groups.
Which is which?
How do you know?
Place on a simple timeline – Granny/Me
Granny to come in to talk about life when she was a
girl, show photographs, bring in objects to look at
etc. if possible.
Children to ask questions to find out about what
everyday life was like when Granny was a girl.
Questions related to:
School, clothes, toys, games,
Present
Old
New
Modern
Resources
Pictures of objects
from
1950’s/1960’s
Vocabulary
Artefact
Past
Present
Old
New
Modern
Resources
Pictures of objects
from
1950’s/1960’s
Vocabulary
Artefact
Past
Present
Old
New
Modern
Resources
Pictures of objects
from
1950’s/1960’s
A Granny