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

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