2KS2 KS2/3 Developing thinking across the curriculum
Plan: Plan -single lesson – Lesson 1/2
Thinking Skills
Learning Objectives
Teaching and learning activities
Possible
learning tools
Plan
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Asking questions (to understand
the problem)
Activating prior knowledge, skills
and understanding
Gathering information
Determining the process/method
and strategy
Determining success criteria
Compare and contrast
modern and
nineteenth century
pictures of Shemi’s
area and to identify a
different way of life to
ours.
Develop
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Generating and developing ideas
Valuing errors and unexpected
outcomes
Entrepreneurial thinking
Thinking about cause and effect
and making inferences
Thinking logically and seeking
patterns
Considering evidence,
information and ideas
Forming opinions and making
decisions
Monitoring progress
Reflect
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Reviewing outcomes and
success criteria
Reviewing the process/method
Evaluating own learning and
thinking
Linking and lateral thinking
Success criteria
 Listen and view
attentively.
 Identify
differences
between the
ways of life,
 Describe them
clearly and
confidently.
 Use appropriate
language to
describe the
passage of time.
Introduction
 Show a map of modern Fishguard / Goodwick
pinpointing some of the present locations in
Shemi’s story e.g. Parrog Beach, the Rose and
Crown, Post Office Hill. (Refer to Powerpoint 1
Maps of Fishguard/Goodwick)
 In pairs, using the flipchart in Shemi’s Times on
the interactive board, match the modern day
picture with the nineteenth century picture.
Choose one pair of pictures for the pupils to
compare and contrast using a thinking diagram
 Discuss the correct pairs as a class.
Think Pair
share
Thinking
diagram –
(see
Examples of
thinking
diagrams –
Task
Figure 1:
 As a class, use the interactive flipchart to step into Compare and
the door of the Broom Street nineteenth century
clom cottage. Take a tour around the cottage as it contrast)
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could have looked in Shemi’s day. (Powerpoint 2
- Tour of Shemi’s Cottage)
In groups, discuss the questions which
accompany each part of the house.
Plenary
 Groups take it in turn to share their interpretations
with the class and then use the interactive flipchart
activity to reveal what the items and places were
used for.
Evaluation of Learning and Teaching