How are our toys different
from those in the past?
Use words and phrases about the passing of time; recognise some characteristics of toys in the past; ask and answer questions about toys in the past; use oral sources and/or museum displays to find out about toys in the past; identify differences between old and new toys; communicate what they know about old and new toys through talk, play and writing
Activity Ideas l Resources and Links
Victorian Links and Resources
Activity Ideas
 ICT Link - Unit 1D To describe objects using key words
Describing toys - Using a word bank
Prepare a word bank with adjectives to describe a collection of old and new toys, and tell the class they are going to make a toy museum.
 Textease wordbank - From Textease
In the Victorian Toys folder in the Textease Resources
Discuss how the toys differ and encourage the children to use a range of adjectives to describe them, e.g. new, old, small, shiny, rusty, broken, clean, toys with batteries, toys we roll, toys we push, toys with remote control.
Tell the children to imagine that they are organising the exhibits and need to group the toys for the visitors to the museum. They sort the collection of toys or images of toys according to, for example, their age, their condition or how they move. Discuss why they might need to label the exhibits, e.g. to identify an object or to give further details about it.
Ask the children to write simple labels, using the word bank of adjectives, to describe the toys and their groups.
 Learning Outcomes
- recognise that objects have properties
- provide information about objects by grouping a collection of toys
Describing Toys - Adding pictures to text
Using the BBC website (pictured right) create a toy factfile. Can the children identify from the words and pictures whether they were toys for rich or poor children.
Describing toys - Listening and speaking
 Can the children guess the toy from listening to the description? Children could record their own descriptions and add them to a Textease page for the rest of the class to guess which toy they are describing.
The Oxfordshire ICT Team have created a lesson plan with resources. www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/history.html
Click on 'Describe an artefact - a toy'
Under the subheading 'Whole Class Teaching' you can download the textease file show on the right.
Sorting photographs of new and old toys
Children look at photographs of toys from the past and discuss similarities and differences with toys today. Can the children sort old toys from new toys? Can they say how they know?
There are three Clicker 5 resources that come with the software.
Bedford Education Museum has an online sorting activity.
Label Toys - ICT Link
Children create labels for each photograph of a toy. Children could select words for the labels from a prepared word bank.
 Timeline of the invention of toys
Can the children place objects in chronological order?
Can the children find the year when a toy was invented?
Textease Timeline comes with an example of a timeline of toys.
How toys have changed
www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/
A teaching resource from National Grid for Learning Cymru that introduces simple timelines by looking at toys.
Resources
  Smartboard Resource
EastRiding LEA have created whiteboard resource for this unit.
Smartboard Resource - (Greenwich ICT)
Smartboard Resource - (Smart Education)
Textease Resource - from Textease Examples
A brief description on poor and rich children toys. Click on the images to hear the name of the toy.
 Clicker 5 Resources on LearningGrids.com
History > Victorians
Toys
Another teaching resource from National Grid for Learning Cymru that compares toys today with those in the past.
Photographs
Photographs
www.mylearning.org
 Photographs and Scheme of Work
www.museumeducation.bedford.gov.uk/bedfordbytes/toys/
Photographs of toys from past years - Mape Site
www.mape.org.uk/curriculum/history/toys.htm
More photos
www.toymuseum.co.uk/pages/photos.htm
Lesson Plans and Resources
 Scheme of Work
The scheme of work provides ideas for six lessons with extension activities.
www.museumeducation.bedford.gov.uk/bedfordbytes/toys/
Lesson Plans and Activities
There are lesson plans and activities for this unit on Hotcourses.com.
To use the site you need to register. It is free. The resources are on the School Tab.
The Light House for Education site as resources for this unit.
The site has a presentation using flash as well as clicker grid resources
Victorian Toys web enquiry for Key Stage 2
Using web sites to look for information about the toys children played with in Victorian times.
General Websites
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