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How do we know about the Great Fire of London?
Be able to place the Great Fire on a class time line and sequence the main events of the fire correctly; know why the fire started and what happened; understand why it ended and some of the results; know that the fire was represented in different ways; understand what information about the fire contemporary pictures and Pepys' diary can provide; communicate their understanding in a variety of ways.
Teaching Activities
 Medium term plan for this unit
 Smartboard Resource - (Greenwich ICT)
Activities
 Use a word bank to write about the fire.
Create a interactive big book on the Great Fire of London.
 Label / add captions to pictures (Year 1/2)
 Great Fire of London Press Pack
BBC Newsround set the following assignment:
Imagine it's 1666 and you're a journalist live on the scene, reporting on what's happening around you as the blaze is taking hold.
- What did you see?
- What did it feel like?
- Maybe you spoke to some of the residents fleeing their homes?
Read the five best entries
 Video a live news report at the scene of the fire ICT Link
Children will have great fun videoing themselves giving their live reports at the scene on the Great Fire of London.
Create an Newspaper report of the Fire ICT Link Unit 4A. Writing for different audiences
Children create a newspaper on the events surrounding the Great Fire of London
Newspaper report from the London Gazette
 Create pictures of the fire ICT Link Unit 2B Creating pictures
Using a paint program, children create a picture showing something important that they have learnt about the fire.
Create an interactive Big book ICT Link
Use ICT to make a talking book or slide show to show what they have learned about the Great Fire. Use prepared linked Clicker grids and save as book pages or a template created in Power Point, with each page linking to a key question.
Compare pictures of London before and after the Fire
What did London look like before and after the Great Fire of 1666? View the animation to see contemporary etchings of the London skyline, showing the extent of the devastation.
www.bbc.co.uk/
 Investigate from pictures why the fire lasted so long, travelled so far and spread so quickly. ICT-based resource for pupils to use to sequence the main events of the historical event.
The Oxfordshire ICT Team have created a lesson plan with resources.
www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/history.html
Click on 'The Great Fire of London'
Websites
Great Fire of London interactive resource from TES
The aim of this online resource is to help children explore this event – which took place beyond the memory of anyone now living – through the eyes of four people who saw it. It can help children to develop an awareness of what the term “eyewitness” means and why eyewitness accounts may differ.
www.tes.co.uk/greatfire/
London's Burning: The Great Fire
Information on the Great Fire
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/great_fire_01.shtml
 Story of the Fire
This Channel 4 website tells the story of the fire – and its legacy – and shows how its devastation
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/fire/index.html
Simulation
Watch the fire spread through London - with sound. www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/fire/map.html
The Great Fire of London - Anglia Campus
Pepys' website
http://www.pepys.info/
Portraits of Samuel Pepys
Pepys' View of the Fire
The Light House for Education site as resources for this unit.
The site has a presentation using flash as well as clicker grid resources
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