A look at the history of local shopping

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Food

Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Geography

  • Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the key human features of the school’s surrounding environment.
  • Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key human features, including: city, town, village, shop.
  • Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human features.
  • Use and construct basic symbols in a key.

Maths

  • Represent numbers using pictorial representations, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
  • Interpret and construct simple block diagrams.
  • Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity.
  • Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing data.

Lesson Planning

Children will use this session to look at the local area, the distribution and type of shops, and how these have changed over time.

Teaching Outcomes
To compare shop uses in the local area across different eras.
To look for, identify, and record local shops on a map.
To create block charts with local area information.

Children will:

  • Go for a walk in the local area and map any shops selling food.
  • Classify food shops according to what they specifically sell.
  • Compare current shops to shops in the past from the local area.
  • Display the information on a block diagram.

Provided Resources

  • Sample block diagrams and analysis questions

You Will Need

  • Local area map from local library or museum