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Time Traveller Quest
Post-Visit Resource
National Curriculum Mapping
This resource corresponds to the
following areas of the National Curriculum:
After your visit...
KS1
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Now that your pupils have visited LEG
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Windsor Resort, and completed the
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plans relating to topics covered in the
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English. It will give your pupils the opp
Practise being a historian
English
En1, En2, En3
History
1, 2, 4, 6
KS2
English
En1, En2, En3
History
1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13
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Construct timelines
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historical themes
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1. Introduction: being a historian
With the whole class or in small groups, encourage pupils to discuss the question
“What do historians do?”. Their answers may include:
Study how ordinary and famous people lived in the past
Explain why major events and changes happened in the past
Help us to understand and learn from these events
Discover how people’s lives have changed over time
xplain that a historian’s job is like that of a detective, putting together evidence
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to explain what happened in the past. Discuss the sources of evidence which are
available to historians, e.g. artefacts, census data, human remains such as bones,
pictures, maps, diaries, books, newspapers, archives, and in more modern times
films, photographs and the internet.
Wow
Fact!
The history of LEGO®
began in 1932, when the
company was founded
by a Danish carpenter
named Ole Kirk
Christiansen.
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2. Sources of evidence
Use a web search to find images of artefacts used by Vikings, pirates, Ancient
Egyptians and Medieval Europeans. In pairs and then in a class discussion, decide
what the different artefacts were used for.
Use
a web search to find a selection of images of artefacts from the period being
studied. In pairs get the children to discuss what they think the artefacts were used
for. In a class discussion highlight things we can learn from these artefacts. In pairs
get the children to discuss how they think life was different for children in the period
being studied compared with themselves. Provide a simple table to record their ideas:
Now
Then
Learning to read and write
Help when you are sick
A place to live
Food to eat
Getting from place to place
Suitcase detective
Show the class the picture of the case below and explain it was found on a Eurostar
train bound for Paris but that nobody knows who it belongs to. Have a class discussion
about what the objects in the case might tell us about the owner. Using a writing
frame, get the children to plan a story about the owner of the case. Discuss their ideas
and ask the children to write the story.
Small silver gun
$10,000 in
banknotes
Map of Paris
False
moustache
Blood-stained
handkerchief
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3. Timeline
Introduce
this activity by explaining that we usually measure how long ago things
happened in years. Get the children to prepare their own timelines, recording key
events in their life (e.g. birth date, first day at school, etc.) with labelled drawings.
Working in pairs the children are given sheets with the line drawings on. Ask the
children to cut out the drawings and stick them on a piece paper in chronological
order, starting with the people who lived the longest time ago.
An extension of this activity would be to explain the way in which a timeline is
structured, including the use of AD and BC, and then ask the children to create a
scaled, dated timeline starting with the Ancient Egyptians and running through to
the present day. An interesting maths challenge would be to get the children to
calculate how long their timeline would have to be to include the dinosaurs as well.
Ancient Egyptians
Pirates
Victorians
Tudors
Vikings
Romans
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4. Literacy activities
Time Traveller News
Show the class a selection of front pages of national and/or local newspapers.
Working in pairs, ask the children to identify the different elements used on front
pages, e.g. headlines, masthead, date, price, photographs, advertising. In the
feedback, the way headlines and news stories are written should be highlighted.
Photocopy the newspaper template below and hand one out for every two pupils.
Working
in pairs again, the children are asked to pick a time period, and fill in the
template to create the front page of a newspaper reporting on a historical event,
phenomenon, movement, or general conditions of the time.
Title
Price
Date
News in brief
Headline
Image
News in brief
Lead story
Image
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Time traveller tale
s a focus for a piece of creative writing, ask the children to imagine themselves as
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travelling through time to the era they are studying and to write a story about this
journey. This approach could also be reversed with the protagonist of the story being
transported from the historical time to the present day.
Job advert vs wanted poster
tart this activity with a class discussion about the children’s views on the positive
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and negative aspects of the people or a famous person from the period they are
studying. Depending on the period or character being studied, choose whether it is
more appropriate to prepare a job advert emphasising their positive characteristics,
or a wanted poster which highlights their negative features. Explain that they are
going to prepare a piece of persuasive writing and outline the purpose and format
of either the job description or the wanted poster. Then get them to prepare the job description or wanted poster.
Stories with a historical or time traveller theme
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley
Viking at School by Jeremy Strong
The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
The Orchard Book of Viking Stories by Robert Swindells
The Time-Travelling Cat and the Viking Terror by Julia Jarman
The Time-travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess by Julia Jarman
The Orchard Book of Stories from Ancient Egypt by Robert Swindells
Egyptian Myths (Stories From Around the World) by Kathy Elgin and Fiona Sansom
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Marcia Williams
Wow
Fact!
In 2009, scientist Stephen
Hawking threw a party
to see if time travel was
possible, and only sent
out the invitations
afterwards! No-one
came.
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