How the site relates to the QCA scheme of work for History at KS1
Theme - What were shops like a long time ago?
What can we find out from the outside of shops?
Take the children to look at shops near the
school. Help them to recognise common features by asking them to
look for what is the same and what is different about the shops.
Encourage them to talk about what the shops are built from,
details of the windows, doors, signs, adverts, etc. Ask the children to draw one of the shops,
showing everything they can recognise. On their return to school,
ask the children to improve their drawing and to include all the
key features. This activity provides opportunities to make links
with Unit 1 'Around our school - the local area' from the QCA
geography scheme of work
ABOUT THE ACTIVITY
It looks at similarities and differences between shops today and shops in the
past. Features of shops, shop products and artefacts and stories about shop life
are used to develop children's ability to distinguish old from new, and to learn
about life at a time beyond living memory.
WHERE THIS ACTIVITY FITS INTO THE QCA SCHEME OF WORK FOR HISTORY Key Stage 1
This activity builds on or could be a substitute for Unit 2 'What were homes
like a long time ago?' by introducing children to an aspect of the past beyond
living memory. Children use a range of sources, including the Sainsbury's
Virtual Museum web-site, to help them answer questions about the past, and are
introduced to shops as a source of information about the past.
RESOURCES
In this unit, children will have opportunities to use:
EXPECTATIONS
at the end of this unit
most children will:
identify features of shops today and at a time before living memory; recognise
objects from the past and present; know how the objects were used and where they
belonged; observe and draw the objects in order to find out about them; use
appropriate language when talking, writing and role playing
some children will not have made so much progress and will:
identify some characteristics of shops and shop life; describe objects of the
past
some children will have
progressed further and will:
make comparisons across the time periods; identify and describe a range of
different features of modern shops and shops built a long time ago; compare shop
life now and in the past beyond living memory.
The section below suggests how the topic might be introduced and
supported with activities based on shops today.
QCA LEARNING OBJECTIVES
POSSIBLE TEACHING ACTIVITIES
QCA LEARNING OUTCOMES
What
sorts of shops do people use today?
Optional
visit activity
Optional ICT activity
Floor robots
Literacy
strategy
The
following books might provide the opportunity to mirror this history
activity within the literacy hour;
Sarah Garland, Going Shopping,Puffin
Pat Barker, Don't Forget the Bacon.
The section below describes how the website can support the study of working
and shopping in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
QCA LEARNING OBJECTIVES
POSSIBLE TEACHING ACTIVITIES
QCA LEARNING OUTCOMES
How were shops
long ago different from shops today?
From the website
show the children a large picture of a Victorian or Edwardian
Sainsbury's eg. Romford. Tell them they are going to find out about
the sorts of shops people used a long time ago. Using the knowledge
they have developed through the previous activity, ask the children
to identify the key features they can see. What is different
about this shop from modern shops? Is it made from the same
material? Are the windows the same shape? Are the signs the same
design? How is the shop lit?
What would we
find inside shops a long time ago?
Story -
Learning about life in a shop
What can we
find out about Victorian or Edwardian times from looking at shops?
How can we
turn the 'home corner' into a shop display from a long time ago?