How has life changed in Britain since 1948?
Demonstrate factual knowledge and understanding of aspects of British life since 1948; use knowledge and understanding to identify changes within and across the period; give reasons for the changes they have identified; select and combine information from more than one source of information to find out about aspects of British life since 1948.
Teaching Resources
  Interview Local People / Grand Parents
Children create a set of questions they can use to interview local people to establish chronological timeline of events pertaining to their community. They use  a variety of ICT media e.g. tape recorder and a digital camera. Back in the classroom they make an illustrated booklet or multimedia presentation of their findings.
Grendon Underwood School
A Year 6 project. A good example for ideas on interviewing and collecting evidence showing how life has changed.
 A survey of adults about the decade in which they were 10 years old
Children collect evidence from parents and grandparents, other relatives and neighbours about their lives in the decade in which they were 10 years old.
ICT Link Unit 4D and Unit 3C
A Oxfordshire ICT team have put together  a lesson plan with questionnaire and data files.
www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/learning_res.html
Investigate how the availability and use of household luxuries has changed in two different decades
The Oxfordshire ICT Team have created a lesson plan with resources (Lesson Plan + ppt )
www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/history.html
Investigate how playground games have changed
www.playgroundfun.org.uk
Lesson ideas
 Connected Earth
Children are able to learn about the reasons for and results of the changes in British life since 1948. There are five main areas that children can investigate changes in British life: working life, home life, popular culture, population, and technology.
Three free activities engage students with the subject, Text a telegram, Voices from history and the Web Quest online treasure hunt, with full background and guidance available in the lesson support material.
 Lesson Support Materials to go with Connective Earth website
www.connected-earth.com
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Britain Since 1930 - Changes in Technology and Transport.
Major changes in technology since 1930 have been the invention of the television and other electrical devices, the dramatic increase in the use of the motor car, space travel and the miniaturization and use of computers and the use of plastic. |
 Cars since the 1930s
 Photographs from Burnsall School
Post War Immigration - Bound for Britain
Between 1948 and 1970 nearly ½ million people left their homes in the West Indies and came to Britain. Children study the evidence here to find out what life was like for these people when they arrived.
www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/
Fashion through the decades
drake.marin.k12.ca.us/students/gallaghj/fashion/fads.html
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British Pathe holds one of the most comprehensive collection of classic videos in the world. Kent schools have full access to the archive through the website to use in lessons.
Please note: You will only be able to download the videos in your school and not from home. |
Video Clips from 1920 - 1960s
bradford.synetrix.co.uk/content/pathe/yearreviews.htm
Britain since the 1930s - Display Timeline & resources
A timeline suitable for display detailing the major events in Britain since 1930,plus other assorted resources, including a cover sheet.
TES Resource Bank
The Here's History Kent web site contains a vast range of local history materials for the towns and parishes of Kent.
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