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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: What can we learn about shapes from buildings?
Past Homes: Can we be room detectives?
Past Toys: Are my toys different from toys in the past?
Past Toys: What sort of toys did my great grandparents play with?
Seaside Past: What can we learn about food in the past from a photograph?
Seaside Past: What did people do at the seaside in the past?
Victorian Life: Did Children in the Past have fun in the Park?

Key Stage 2

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Anglo Saxon Life: Can you use evidence to reconstruct the past?
Art: Can a photograph tell us about relationships between different people?
Art: What do you think happened just before this photograph was taken?
Edwardian Life: Were the Edwardians like us?
Life since 1948: What can buildings tell us about life in Britain since 1948?
Roman Remains: What can archaeological evidence tell us about Roman life?
Roman settlers: How did the Romans change Britain when they settled here?
Victorian Life: What was life like for Victorian children? Did it get any better?
Victorian Life: What was life like for Victorian school children?
WWII: How can a photograph help us to imagine 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?
Why did Portchester Castle remain in use for over 1700 years?

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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