Description
Overview
Ballinrobe: A Century of Change should help children to work as historians. A number of the skills and concepts required for fifth and sixth classes are explored:
Time and chronology
- develop an understanding of time and chronology so as to place people, objects and events within a broad historical sequence
- use words, phrases and conventions associated with the recording of dates and time
Change and continuity
- develop an understanding of change and continuity by exploring similarities and differences between the past and the present and between different periods in the past
Cause and effect
- recognise some factors which may have caused, prevented or delayed changes in the past
- appreciate that events usually have a number of causes and outcomes
Using evidence
- examine and use critically a wide range of historical evidence including photographs, pictures, objects, memories of older people, buildings, other media, information and communication technologies
- develop some skills in the location and selection of evidence
- distinguish between primary and secondary sources
- ask questions about a piece of evidence
- compare accounts of a person or event from two or more sources
- make simple deductions from evidence
- recognise that evidence may be incomplete or biased
- appreciate that evidence can be interpreted in a number of ways
What You Need
Broadband connection A teacher who can work as facilitator to engender lively classroom discussion Data projector for working with the class as a group Class computer or computer room for independent research done by children
Curriculum Addressed
SESE History
Author: Gerry Ryder
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Details
- Date
- November 19, 2010
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