Title: Topic

Dates: April-May 2021

Year Group: Standard 2
Brief Description of Objectives, Outcomes, Content:
This unit looks at similarities and differences between transport today and transport in the past. Features of
different types of transport and stories about transport are used to enable children to develop criteria to
distinguish old from new, and to learn about life at a time beyond living memory. In this unit children will learn
about the first aeroplane flights and find out about the first landing on the moon.

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Lesson & (if Differentiated activities ar links
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Framework
codes
L1 To compare I can talk Intro: Slides; Do children
modes of about the Show children the questions on the slides and the possible modes of transport. Which type Differentiated know that
transport differences of transport could you use to go to the shops? Which could you use to travel to another Activity sheets the modes of
now and in in old and country? Go through each question and discuss which modes of transport would be most transport we
the past. new suitable. have today
transport • Explain that in the past, people didn’t have cars, trains and aeroplanes. How do you have not
think people travelled around before all these types of transport were invented? Children to always been
think, pair, share their ideas. available?
• Go through a brief history of transport and show children the timeline on the slides • Can
detailing when different types of transport were invented. Go through the information children
about how these types of journeys were different to journeys today and how this made identify
people’s lives different (e.g. by not being able to work far away from where you live). modes of
transport
Main: today
LA: Children to draw lines from the type of transport to show whether it was transport that and in the
is used today or that was used in the past. past?
MA: Children to complete the sentences to show how people travelled in the past • Can
before various types of transport were invented. children
HA: Ask children to get into pairs and provide each with a copy of worksheet 1C. Children make
to imagine that they are living in the past before cars were invented and that they have just suggestions
travelled a long way in a horse and carriage. Children to go through each of the interview about how
questions and write a response for each. Once finished, children could act out their journeys
 interviews for the rest of the class. were
different
Plenary: Explain that journeys that take us only a few hours by car today would have today and in
taken days when you had to use a horse and carriage. Horses need to stop regularly to the past?
drink, eat and rest. What do you think would have been most difficult about travelling this
way? What do you think would be most fun? Invite children to share their ideas.
L2 To find out Have you Intro: Have you ever been on a train? What was the journey like? Invite children to share https://www.you Do children
about the ever been their ideas. tube.com/watch know when
invention of on a train? • Go through the information on the slides about the invention of the steam engine, the ?v=P3lK1Vkt- trains were
trains and What was history of trains and the impact this had on the people of Britain. xo first used?
how this the journey • How do you think trains in Victorian times were different from or similar to trains • Can
affected like? today? Children to think, pair, share their ideas, then go through the information on the Great video clip children
travel. slides. about trains in describe how
India the invention
Main: of trains
LA: Provide children with a set of the Picture Cards showing images of trains in the past. changed life
In pairs, children to discuss what they can see and how trains today are different from or in Britain?
similar to these trains. On Activity sheet, children to write one thing they can see in each • Can
train. children
MA: Provide children with a set of the Picture Cards showing images of trains in the past. describe
In pairs, children to discuss what they can see and how trains today are different from or similarities
similar to these trains. Give children a set of the Sentence Cards and ask them to sort them and
into the correct column in the table on activity sheet. When finished, children to answer differences
the question. between
HA: Provide children with a set of the Picture Cards showing images of trains in the past. trains now
In pairs, children to discuss what they can see and how trains today are different from or and in the
similar to these trains. On Activity sheet, children to complete the table to describe trains past?
today and trains in the past, then answer the question.

Plenary: Ask one child to come to the front of the class and sit in the ‘hot seat’. Ask them
to imagine that they are living in Victorian times and that they have just been
on a train for the first time. Invite the rest of the class to ask the child questions about what
the train and the journey were like.

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L3 To find out I can talk Intro: Do you have a car at home? Slides; ART • Do children
about the about how What type of journeys do you use the car for? Differentiate know that
invention of cars have Invite children to share their ideas (e.g. going to school, to the shops, to visit friends and d Activity before cars
motor cars. changed family, etc.). Explain that today millions of people have cars to help them get from place to sheets were invented
 through the place but that cars are quite a recent invention. With the invention of the railway, people could people
years now get to some places more easily but you could only go where there was a railway. travelled by
horse and
• Go through the information on the slides about the invention of the motor car, what the first carriage?
cars were like and how cars have changed through the years. • Can children
• Show children the pictures of cars from different decades on the slides. How have these describe what
cars changed over the years? Children to think, pair, share their ideas. early cars
were like
Main Activity: and how they
are different
LA: Provide children with a set of the Picture Cards. On worksheet, children to put the cars in
from cars
order from earliest to latest. Underneath, children to choose a few words to describe each of today?
the cars. • Can children
MA: Provide children with a set of the Picture Cards. On worksheet, children to put the cars in discuss the
order from earliest to latest, then answer the questions. impact of cars
HA: Provide children with a set of the Picture Cards. On worksheet, children to put the cars in on our lives?
order from earliest to latest, then answer describe how they knew which cars were earliest and
which were latest.

Plenary: What do you think is the best thing about the invention of cars? Are there any bad
things about the invention of cars? Invite children to share their ideas.
Take a vote as a class about whether or not the invention of cars is a positive or a negative
thing.
L4 To find out I can talk Intro: Have you ever been on an aeroplane? Slides; Do children
about the about how Where did you go? Worksheets; know that
first people What was it like? Invite children to share their ideas. paper people had
would feel tried to invent
aeroplane • Explain that before aeroplanes were invented, people had always dreamed of being able to
about the flying
flights. first fly. Show children Leonardo Da Vinci’s design but explain that without power, it would never machines for
aeroplane work. hundreds of
flight • Go through the story on the slides about the Wright brothers and the invention of the years before
aeroplane. the
first aeroplane
• How do you think the Wright brothers would have felt after their first successful flight? flight?
What do you think people of the time would have thought about a flying machine? • Do children
Children to think, pair, share their ideas. know who the
• Explain how planes have changed since the first flights. Wright
brothers are?
• Can
Main:
children
Tell children that today they are going to find out what it was like to be the Wright brothers. suggest how
Tell children that today they will be making some paper aeroplanes and then testing them to different
see whether they fly or not. people would
• Challenge children to explore their own paper aeroplane designs. There are plenty of videos have felt
online for how to make paper aeroplanes if the children are stuck for ideas. about the first
• Once all children have an aeroplane they can fly, take them outside and test them. Encourage aeroplane
flights?
 children to think about how they feel before they test it, and how they feel after the flight. Has
it succeeded? Did it dive straight to the ground? Did it fly a long way?
• Once back in the classroom, discuss as a class how what they have just done compares to
what the Wright brothers did. Children could then fill in the speech bubbles on worksheet.

Plenary:
Show children the picture of the modern aeroplane on the slides. Do you think the Wright
brothers would be surprised to see how many aeroplanes are in the air today and what these
aeroplanes are like? How do you think they would feel? Invite children to share their ideas.

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L5 To find out Explain that by the 1960s, lots of people had cars and that aeroplanes and other more modern Do children
about the modes of transport were being used every day. Show children the pictures of different types of PPT, know that
first landing transport from this era. However, there was still one place that people couldn’t journey to... Pictures space travel
on the moon. • Show children the picture of the Apollo 11 crew on the slides. Do you know who these is a
people are? What do you think they do? Is this a recent picture or a picture from a very long relatively
time ago? Invite children to share their ideas. recent event?
• Explain that these men are famous astronauts. They are famous because they were part of • Can
the first successful mission to fly to the moon. children
retell the
• Give children a brief overview of the history of space travel, and then go through the story story of the
of the Apollo 11 mission. first landing
• Show children the video of the first landing on the moon on the NASA website on
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html the moon?
. There are also lots of videos of Apollo 11 on YouTube. How do you think the rest of the • Can
world would have felt seeing this for the very first time? Invite children to share their ideas. children
express ideas
Main: about how
LA: Provide children with the Sentence Cards in small groups. Support children in reading the the people
sentences and putting them in order to retell the story of the first landing on the moon. Once in who
the correct order, children could stick on a large sheet of paper and illustrate. witnessed
MA: Provide children with a set of the Domino Cards. Challenge children to match up the this might
question with the correct answer to give information about the Apollo 11 mission. Make sure have felt?
children start with question 1. Children could then stick these on a large sheet of paper and
illustrate to create a poster about the first moon landing.
HA: Provide children with the Information Sheet. Children to use the information to answer
the questions on worksheet.
Plenary: We have found out a lot about how transport has changed over the years. Show
 children the pictures of different modes of transport on the slides. With a partner, challenge
children to put them in order from earliest to latest, then check on the slides.
L6 To be able to I can Intro: Children to discuss in talk partners all the different things that they can recall from PPT Look for
compare create my previous lessons in this unit. Scribe their ideas children
travel and own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMZ6JowYV0 who show
transport of representat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ias80qIlzqA&feature=youtu.be good
the past, ion of Main: Compare and contrast the different travel scenarios from the present day to 1825
awareness
present and how (before the time when passenger trains, cars and aeroplanes existed).
future. people will Look at the slides and discuss some actual future plans for transport, such as ‘magnetic
of the
travel in levitation’ (maglev) trains, self-driving or driverless cars, space tourism etc. developm
the future. Activity: Children have the opportunity to design their own transportation vehicle that could ents in
be used in the future. Can they think of a name for it, such as Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’? history of
LA/MA: Use the Cogs, Wheels and Wings Activity Sheet to cut various elements from to use various
for their own design. forms of
HA: Children to write some sentences about how their form of transport works and label their travel and
design. transport.
Plenary: Ask children to share their designs with the class, talking about how their form of
transport will be used and will work. How is it an improvement on the forms of travel that we
currently have?

Home learning: The children could use junk modelling and other materials to make their
future transport designs.