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Historical enquiry
Data handling – employment in the Somerset coalfields 1875-1950
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A data handling exercise based on employment levels on the Somerset
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Y5 Y6 | Statistics
William Smith- chopped up
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A listening activity about William Smith, the father of English
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Y4 Y5
Changes in the landscape
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An historical enquiry and human geography activity based on
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Y3 Y4
Canal locks – then and now
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A writing stimulus activity based on using photographs to encourage
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Writing composition
Children in the coalmines - chopped up
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A listening activity about the children who worked in the north
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 | Spoken language
On the canal – word mat
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A useful word mat resource for descriptive writing. Children
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Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
A stroll around a medieval market
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An historical enquiry activity based upon photographs of a r
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Y2 Y3 Y4
Timeline cards - the Olympic version!
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These attractive timeline cards, showing Ancient and Modern Olympic
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Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 | Sports
The Somerset Coal Canal - Chopped up!
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Three activities based on the creation of the Somerset Coal Canal
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Somerset Coal Canal – a history cloze activity
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A cloze activity based on the background of the Somerset Coal
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Combe Hay locks 3 – Ten minutes, ten facts
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A history starter activity encouraging children to make inferences
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Y5 Y6
Combe Hay locks 2 – Ten minutes, ten facts
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A history starter activity encouraging children to make inferences
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Y5 Y6
Ten minutes, ten facts - On a barge
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A history starter activity encouraging children to make inferences
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Y5 Y6
Combe Hay locks 1 – Ten minutes, five sentences
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A history starter activity using a photograph of a disused canal
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Y5 Y6
Codewords activity - Somerset Coal Canal
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A differentiated brainteaser based on keywords linked to the
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Children working underground – what can you see?
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Children analyse a nineteenth-century image of children working
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Y4 Y5 Y6
Canals - ten minutes, five sentences!
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A writing prompt to help get children's ideas flowing about canals.
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Spot the difference: life on a canal barge (Y1/Y2)
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Children study an image of a canal barge cabin from 1944, and
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Y1 Y2
Introduction to grid references - Somerset Coal Canal
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A grid reference task based on a map provided by Somerset Coal
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Y2 Y3 Y4
Find the distance - Somerset Coal Canal
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Children use a table to find the distances between locations
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Y3 Y4
Life on a canal barge
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A great historical enquiry activity. Children answer questions
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Y2 Y3 Y4
What am I? – examining artefacts
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Children are asked to consider photographs of Greek artefacts
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Carrier bag detectives
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Encourage your pupils to think like historians by looking for
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
What food was rationed during WWII and why?
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A scaffolding to support research into food rationing during
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
WWII evacuation billet cards
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A set of scenario cards outlining the details of host families
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Chronological Toys – historical research
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Super resource which invites children to find out how popular
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(1)Y2 Y3 Y4 | Toys
Kings and Queens of England timeline
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A visual timeline divided into period of history listing all
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Time-line cards
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A colourful set of cards sequencing key historical events, including
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(1)Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
eBay - historical enquiry
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A fun way to develop enquiry skills. Looking at lists of items
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Y5 Y6
