Contents
Showing pupils where they are and where they are heading from Early Years to Year 6.
History Progression Overview
Showing you how we have sequenced areas of study year by year. 7 Objectives for children working below the National Curriculum requirements for Year 1
The Lion S-Scales provide a framework for learning that bridges the gap between the Government’s new Engagement Model and the KS1 and KS2 curriculum for History.
Requirements for Key Knowledge and Skills
Including National Curriculum requirements, Lion’s recommendations for greater depth and a History: Key Knowledge and Skills year planner.
objectives and lesson plans
Detailed lesson content and assessment sheets for every half-term unit, presented in line with the Lion Pathway. These include our recommendations for broadening and deepening the National Curriculum requirements at every stage and clear reference to corresponding timelines in British and World History.
Year 1 Year 2
Lesson 1
In this lesson, the children will learn about past changes in the Earth’s climate, focusing on Britain. They will learn about the Ice Age, looking at features such as glaciers, ice sheets and ice streams.
Learning Intention
To understand what is meant by the Ice Age.
Success Criteria
• I can use pictures to fnd out about the Ice Age.
• I can explain how the Ice Age was different to how things are now.
• I can describe what glaciers, ice sheets and ic e streams are.
Resources
For Task A you will need different pictures relating to the Ice Age to label (for example, of the environment, climate, people and animals from the time). For Task B you will need pictures of animals from the Ice Age and some materials or dressing-up clothes and for Task C you will need playdough and pictures of land during the Ice Age showing ice sheets and glaciers.
Differentiated Activities
Task A - Describe what Britain was like during the Ice Age. Ask the children to label pictures depicting the Ice Age. How is it different to today?
Make sure you explain what glaciers, ice sheets and ice storms are.
Task B - Dress up and role-play as Ice Age people. How is it different to today?
What can you see around you?
Task C - Make glaciers and ice sheets using playdough.
Explain how the Ice Age was different to how Britain is now.
Key Vocabulary
Ice sheet - a thick sheet of ice that covers a large area of land.
Glacier - a large area of thick ice that remains frozen.
Compress - to press or squeeze together.
Ice stream - a river of fast-fowing ice.
Assessment Questions
• What do we mean by the Ice Age?
• What are the characteristics of the Ice Age?
• Why does the ice change?
• How do we know it happened?
Lesson 2
In this lesson, the children will move on to learn about how Britain became an island, looking at the land bridge that connected Britain to mainland Europe and the effect of climate change on this. They will learn about the impact of melting ice.
Learning Intention
To understand how Britain became an island.
Success Criteria
• I can describe a land bridge.
• I can fnd answers to how Britain became an island.
• I can explain how forests grew.
Resources
Depending on the activities selected you may need sand, water, tissue paper, a clear box and ice. For Task C you will need a template of a map of the UK. Task A requires key vocabulary for the explanation. You will also need a camera or iPad to take pictures of the Task B practical for book evidence.
Differentiated Activities
Task A - Before the lesson, teacher to record themselves making a model of an island (in a clear, plastic lunch box) covered in ice. Watch the video and discuss the process.
Discussion points: When the ice melts, the land will be cut off from the mainland. Ice cubes put on the land will form little lakes when they melt.
Use your fndings to write an explanation of how Britain became an island and how this made forests grow. Use the key vocabulary: land bridge, warmer climate, ice melted, sea levels, island, forests.
Task B - Make islands using sand and water or tissue paper. Discuss where there used to be a land bridge. Can you add forests to your model?
Task C - Colour the water blue around the UK islands. Add where there used to be a land bridge. Discuss with your teacher how Britain has changed.
Key Vocabulary
Island - an area of land surrounded by water.
Climate - the weather in a place over a long time.
Sea level - the point where the ocean meets the land.
Land bridge - a strip of lan d connecting two pieces of land (for example, two islands).
Assessment Questions
• What is a land bridge?
• What caused the ice to reduce?
• What was the effect of rising sea levels?
• How did Britain become an island?
• What effects would the ice sheet melting have had on animals moving to Great Britain?
Celebration Ideas
Exit Points
To summarise the learning throughout this unit, here are some examples of planned exit points for the children to showcase their learning.
Resources
You will need large sheets of paper and art resources as well as ice cubes, food colouring, cling flm and toothpicks to create cave art.
Ice Cube Paintings
The night before the lesson, the teacher will need to make some coloured ice cubes using food colouring, and put cling flm over them and add toothpicks. They will then be ready to use the next day.
Can you use the ice cubes to do ice-cube painting to create pictures of glaciers, ice streams and ice sheets? Once your picture is dry you can label it.
Ice Age Posters
In mixed groups, create a poster based on what you have learnt about the Ice Age to present to the rest of the class. Your teacher will tell you what your group should focus on from the topics below:
• Glaciers, ice streams and ice sheets.
• How Britain became an island.
• Different animals that lived during the Ice Age.
• Food and homes in the Ice Age.
• How animal bones help us understand the past.
Cave Art Shelter
Can you create you own class shelter? You will need an entire wall flled with cave art. This cave art needs to show all of the different aspects of the Ice Age that you have learnt about.
End of Unit Assessment Ice Age
This end-of-unit assessment sheet is designed for children to complete themselves. You can download hard copies from the Lion Learning Pathways website.
End of Unit Assessment Ice Age
In this unit, we will learn that Ice Ages are periods in time when large areas of the Earth’s surface were covered with ice sheets and glaciers.
This half term, we will learn about
• Changes in the Earth’s weather looking at features such as glaciers, ice sheets and ice streams.
• How Britain became an island, land bridges and the impact of melting ice.
• Large mammals that are now extinct and how they survived during the Ice Age.
• The life of people during the Ice Age including what they wore and ate.
• Homes during the Ice Age and what they were made from.
• Ice Age history of the local area.
this unit, you are working
what is meant by the Ice Age understand how Britain became an island can use sources to find evidence of what happened in the past can compare daily life in the Ice Age with that of today can compare homes during the Ice Age with those of today can explore evidence of the impact of the Ice Age in my local area
