Education resources
The content on the website can be used in many ways to support breadth and balance in the curriculum. Individual oral history clips could be used as primary source material to support many areas of the curriculum including history, geography, citizenship, literacy and ICT.
To help you make use of the web site we have created a series of activity sheets focussing on some of the themes. The activity sheets have been designed to support the Key Stage 2 QCA schemes of work:
History
- Unit 13 - How has life changed in Britain since 1948?
- Unit 18 - What was it like to live here in the past?
Geography
- Unit 5 - Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?
Citizenship
- Unit 5 - Living in a diverse world
- Unit 10 - Local democracy for young citizens
The activity sheets are designed in two ways. Some sheets are for use in front of the computer, others can be used for follow up work in the classroom. For more information about the activity sheets and how to use them download the Teachers' Notes.
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| Teachers notes |  (110 KB) |
| Activity sheet | |
|---|---|
| Shopping in the 1930s and 1940s! | (110 KB) |
| Shopping in the 30s and 40s Milton advert! | (109 KB) |
| Shopping in the 1950s and 1960s! | (111 KB) |
| Shopping in the 50s and 60s shop signs! | (130 KB) |
| How shopping has changed since 1950! | (156 KB) |
| Where in the world! | (109 KB) |
| A postcard home! | (105 KB) |
| Map it! | (168 KB) |
| Then and now! Colin Ralph | (106 KB) |
| Then and now! Makhan Singh | (107 KB) |
| Then and now! Joyce and Dora | (106 KB) |
| Then and now! Maud and Alice | (105 KB) |
| Then and now! Liz Howe | (105 KB) |
| Oral history interview sheet | (104 KB) |