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What was it like to live here in the past?
Recognise buildings and features in their local area and know that the locality has changed over time; demonstrate factual knowledge and understanding about the history of the locality or about some of the main events and people linked to the area; recognise some of the similarities and differences in living conditions at different times in the area; ask and answer questions and make deductions about the area by using historical sources in a variety of ways.
Teaching Resources
Link with Geography unit: Local Area
  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.
Places Change
Lesson plan and resources from UK Department for Transport
Add captions on Pictures
Children look study the evidence given by buildings for local history.
Teacher Resource Exchange
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Map Work
Use Multimap find your local area using the postcode. Look at aerial photographs and identify historic features.
www.multimap.com |
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Dating Houses
Using a PowerPoint 'book' children will sort house pictures into “new” (c. 1930's-present) and “old” (Victorian). They will then sort them into more more precise groupings. If they are available, children can then sort pictures of buildings in their own area into similar groupings. Alternative resources available for teachers not using computers for lesson.
Teacher Resource Exchange
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/houses.html
Sensing the Past
This is a lesson plan suggesting how teachers might deliver activity 2 suggested in QCA 18, asking children to imaging what they might have seen, heard and smelled at different points on local maps of different periods. The resource includes a PowerPoint presentation set up with 7 linked pages, 4 for teachers to display local maps, and 3 where children can write what they think they would have sensed at the different map points. Paper based resources included for teachers working away from the computer.
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Map Matching
Children will explore a PowerPoint book of local maps linked to pictures of local buildings. They will position buttons on several maps to mark the locations of buildings and landmarks. They will indicate the dates of the maps contemporary with the buildings or landmarks. Suggestions are made for doing the activity without computers.
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History of Kent
Kent was settled well before most other parts of England and has the oldest recorded place name in the British Isles. The County's history is closely bound up in its proximity to mainland Europe
www.kent.gov.uk/Community/kent-and-its-people/history-of-kent
Historic Kent
Focussing on the counties history, its towns and villages
www.historic-kent.co.uk
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The Here's History Kent web site contains a vast range of local history materials, including maps and photographs, for the towns and parishes of Kent. |
History of towns and villages in Kent
The Cinque Ports and Ancient Towns
History, maps, pictures of the Cinque Ports and Ancient towns associated with Sandwich in Kent UK
www.open-sandwich.co.uk/town_history
History of Tonbridge
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/townhistory
History of Faversham
www.faversham.org
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Old photos of Kent towns and Villages 
