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Teaching Activities provide a selected image supported by a teaching idea and associated worksheets, notes or whiteboard downloads. They ask a Key Question targeted at specific National Curriculum related topics.

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Key Stage 1

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Art: Building Shapes
Past Homes: Interiors
Past Toys: Family Portrait
Past Toys: Shopping for Toys
Seaside Past: Picnics
Seaside Past: Punch and Judy
Victorian Life : Going to the Park

Key Stage 2

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Anglo Saxon Life: Anglo Saxon Remains
Art: Identifying Emotions
Art: Portraying Relationships
Edwardian Life: Were the Edwardians like us?
Life since 1948: Building Blocks
Roman Remains: Evidence
Roman settlers: Buildings
Victorian Life: Children at Work
Victorian Life: The Classroom
WWII: Life during the Blitz

Key Stage 3

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Are we right to commemorate the life of a slave trader?
How did William the Conqueror secure his control over Saxon England?
How reliable are Victorian photographs as a source of evidence?
Were the Victorians like us?
What can a photograph tell us about how people impact on the environment?
What can a town's buildings tell us about Victorian minds?
What can the inscription on a grave tell us about attitudes to black people?
What evidence of everyday life since 1948 can we find in a photograph?
What was housing like for the Victorian middle classes?

Key Stage 4

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How did WWI change the role of women in Britain?
To what extent were women’s lives already changing before WW1?
Were workhouses built and run by cruel people?
What part was played by Britain in the defeat of Germany in WWI?

Key Stage 5

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Archaeological DBA - Could you be an archaeologist or will the builders get the better of you?
How real was the threat of invasion 1538-47?
To what extent did the vision turn into reality? – Housing in the 1950s and 60s
What can memorials tell us about British Foreign Policy 1854 - 1914?
What effect did the dissolution of the monasteries have on English society and culture?

Starter Activities

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Spot the Difference - Lowestoft 1949
What 12 things shouldn't be in the photo of Blackpool in c1900?
What 14 things shouldn't be in this picture of London in 1902?

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