History for Ages 6 to 9 Course

Free online course · 4 lessons

A first look at history for children aged 6 to 9: how life has changed within living memory, people worth remembering, and the history of your own area.

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What you will learn in 4 lessons

Every lesson includes all nine study tools

  • Study Guide
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  • Practice Questions
  • Flashcards
  • Explain It
  • Key Terms
  • Cheat Sheet
  • Concept Map
  1. The child finds out about the past from objects, pictures, buildings, written records and older people, and asks what each source can and cannot tell.

    5 learning goals
    1. 1.Find out about the past like a history detective
    2. 2.Learn from objects, digs and museums
    3. 3.Read pictures, photographs and places
    4. 4.Learn from writing, memories and stories
    5. 5.Put sources together to answer history questions
  2. The child compares daily life, toys, school, technology and transport now and when parents and grandparents were young, and explains what changed and what stayed the same.

    5 learning goals
    1. 1.Find out about life when your family was young
    2. 2.Compare family life and homes then and now
    3. 3.Compare toys, games and school then and now
    4. 4.Explain how technology and transport changed daily life
    5. 5.Explain what changed and what stayed the same
  3. The child learns about the lives of significant people from different times and places, and discusses why people are remembered and how they changed things.

    5 learning goals
    1. 1.Find out who significant people are
    2. 2.Tell the true story of a person's life
    3. 3.Find out how people changed things and why they did it
    4. 4.Compare two lives
    5. 5.Discover how and why we remember people
  4. The child investigates the history of their own street, village or town through buildings, street names, monuments and local stories.

    6 learning goals
    1. 1.Discover the history all around you
    2. 2.Read the clues in old buildings and street names
    3. 3.Understand monuments and memorials
    4. 4.Collect local stories and search old records
    5. 5.Explore how your place has changed
    6. 6.Plan a heritage walk and share your local history

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