KS 1
History, Citizenship Background
These activities could form a local history and geography follow up
to the QCA Unit 17: What are we remembering on Remembrance Day.
Most areas have some form of commemorative monument, often a war memoria,l
to remember those who died in the First and Second World Wars. Children
may be taken to visit this while studying Unit 17.
The Unit also provides an opportunity to look at why and how important
events are commemorated by people in Britain and the wider world. There
are important links here with current conflicts where family members
may be involved and sometimes whole families have fled from hostilities.
Key Question: What monuments do we have in our area
which remind us about people and events in the past?
Learning Objective
- Understand what the word ‘commemorative’ and ‘monument’
mean
- Identifying monuments in the locality which record past events
- Using the Images in England website to find other commemorative
monuments in our district/area
Resources
Access to the internet, Imperial
War Museum website, English
Heritage Adopt a Monument local history resource etc.
Local photographs of war memorials, churches, fountains, house plaques
etc
Pre-lesson task
- Prepare a display of photographs taken in the immediate locality
of the school which can be seen as reminding children of the past
- Children who are regular church goers may be very familiar with
gravestones which provide a commemoration of people who may have lived
a very long time ago
- Ask children if they can recognise where photographs have been taken
- Ideally children should have the opportunity both before and after
the lesson of looking and touching some of these memorials
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