Introduction

This resource pack is designed to teach the differences and similarities in working life between the past and the present over several lessons, or when needed. The pack is a visual stimulus to promote discussion and illustrates why jobs were different in the past. Clothing and tools are covered in more detail.

In this pack pupils should learn to:

  • make comparisons about the way we live today and lived in the past
  • discuss what life must have been like in past times
  • describe the jobs needed in the past, and today

This resource pack addresses section 2.3 of the KS1 history PoS of the national curriculum in Wales.

Starter activity

Main session part 1

Main session part 2

Main session part 3

Main session part 4

Plenary

Background information

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