• Use a computer screen or projector to display an image of a toy brainstorm keywords and descriptions for the different toys.
• Use digital images of toys past and present and sort on screen old toys new toys
• Collect data about toys through a simple survey or database Use the information to create simple graphs, pictographs or charts. This could be identifying features of favourite toys or information about toys from different generations.
• Use a digital camera or images collected from the Internet to create either a printed display of toys past and present. Or use PowerPoint to create a virtual toy museum.
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• Sort on screen images of toys by identifiable features.
• Create a toy time line, babies toys, toddler, 3 year old etc.
• Use a word bank or drag and drop labels to describe toys old or new

Internet Resources
Educate the Children: Lesson plans ideas and worksheets also links to useful websites for information and resources.
Toy museums etc.:
The Bear Museum: http://www.bearmuseum.co.uk/
The old Bear Museum: http://www.oldbearcompany.co.uk/
The wooden Toy Museum: http://www.woodentoymuseum.com/ and try also http://www.oldwoodtoys.com/photos.htm for images of old wooden toys.
Pollocks Toy Museum London: http://www.tao2000.net/pollocks/museumphotos.htm
BBC Toys past and Present: http://www.bbc.co.uk/smallpeople/past_present.shtml
Channel 4 Learning: The Victorians toyshop: http://4learning.co.uk/qca/victorians/toyshop.html
More information about Victorian toys and games: http://www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/victoriana/fungames/children/games/games.html

• Collect digital images of houses and homes in the local area. Identify features and label.
• Digital images of different period houses can often be found on the Internet if they are not in your local area using Google image search: www.google.co.uk select the images tab.
• Use a simple survey to collect data for a simple database about features of their houses. (Black Cat Pick a Picture or Counting pictures is great for this)
• Use a digital image or clip art of a house, label using either a word bank or drag and drop labels.
• Use a simple paint package to draw features of their houses If household objects form the past are not available you could again use a digital image.
• Create a drag and drop timeline or sorting activity of old and new household items
• Use a large screen or projector to work with a group or class to create a word bank of nouns and objectives describing a room in the past.

• Build up a collection of images from photographs of seaside holidays. Scan the images to create a digital scrapbook. PowerPoint could be used to create a slide show. Use images of the seaside projected on a computer screen to discuss features of different
• Seaside resorts http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/seaconte.htm has images from seaside resorts and a sheet to fill in about each.
• Used the scanned photographs of parents and carer's when they were young to start discussions about holidays in the past. Record memoirs of grandparents and parents holidays on a tape recorder you can have a digitise selection of seaside photos from the past you could drag and drop them into a timeline
• Create a simple writing frame for the children to write about holidays now and in the past. Create a drag and drop labelling activity comparing two images modern and old to help identify the differences.
• Record memoirs of grandparents /parents holidays on a tape recorder. Record an interview with a parent/carer/grandparent
• http://www.punchandjudy.com/ Punch and Judy could be a starting point for features of a holiday in the past. Visit the web site for history , scripts and photographs of Mr Punch in action.
• After looking at pictures or photographs of seaside holidays today and in the past, using a simple painting program, create a picture of seaside holiday.
• Collect data and use a simple database to collect information about holidays the children take and Holidays their parents and grandparents took when they were children

Internet Resources
Snaith Primary School: Seaside resources: http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/seaconte.htm A good site with a variety of seaside related activities. Visit Blackpool and all the sites as a starting point about seaside holidays. Or create your own beach scene.
Download this word document with beach scene photographs: http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/ict/primary/teachers/ictinsubjects/history/examples/seasidepictures.doc
Use Google image search for digital photographs of beaches. www.google.co.uk

• Have a collection of images of famous people use as a resource show to the children and discuss who they are and why they are famous. Have a selection of people from the past and present. Use www.Google.co.uk to find images. You could see if they could try and put them in a timeline.
• Use digital images of Florence Nightingale compare clothing to a modern Nurse.
• Create a word bank or drag and drop labelling activity to identify similarities and differences.
• Model finding information about Florence Nightingale on the Internet or CD ROM. Show the children how the information is found and how you can copy and paste the text and pictures and use it for their own writing
• Use images to create a storyboard of her life. Create a word bank to support the children's writing
• Create a word bank to support children writing about a hospital scene. Create a drag and drop labelling activity to support children's ideas
• Create a writing farm with speech bubbles for children to add text too.
• Use Software to build a storyboard, booklet or template about Florence Nightingale and her life. Either print off for the children to use. Or if you have good access to computers they could do part of the information sheet on the computer. Consider using tape recorders for some children to record the story orally.

Internet Resources:
The Florence Nightingale Museum: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/
Snaith Primary School : A lovely child friendly resource: http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/flo2.htm
BBC Information on Florence Nightingale: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/medicine/nightingale_myth1.shtml
@ school : online quiz http://www.atschool.co.uk/lineone/activity3.asp?Act5Back=%2FLineOne%2FDefault%2Easp
Create a Florence Nightingale Victorian Paper doll. Download images from:http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/pdfa.htm

• Create a digital time line to drag and drop events on the time line. To understand that it was along time ago. Use images a writing and a word bank to support children's writing about Samuel Pepys or Charles II. The National portrait gallery is a good source for images Charles II http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=ss&sText=Charles+II&LinkID=mp00841
  http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=ss&sText=pepys&LinkID=mp03510 Use the Portraits from Compare to other people to enable them to compare dress and hair styles etc.
• Use the Internet as a source for information on the Great Fire of London. Show how you searched for the information and the type of information you found.
• Drag and drop sentences into the correct order detailing the main events of the Great fire of London. If you have Clicker sentences can be selected using the word bank in the Clicker grids.
• Create a writing frame for their ideas about how the fire started and why it spread so easily.
• Compare pictures of a 17th century street with a modern street in London discuss how they are different. Drag and drop sentences to match e.g. 'The fire spread because...of the direction of the wind.' 'The people escaped to the churches because...these were built of stone.' 'The fire went out because... the wind stopped.'

Internet Resources:
London Fire Brigade http://www.londonfirebrigade.co.uk/about_us/the_great_fire_of_london.asp
The Great Fire of London: http://www.jmccall.demon.co.uk/history/page2.htm
Channel 4 History:http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/fire/ and http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/fire/map.html for an interactive map watch the fire spread.
BBC: Explore the London skyline before and after the Fire (images are small) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/games/fire/index.shtml
Anglia Campus http://www.angliacampus.com/education/fire/london/history/greatfir.htm

• Visit the local war memorial. Use the Internet to explore the significance of Remembrance day and the Symbol of the Poppy.
• Look at the Rememberance day poetry as a stimulus for the clas to create their own. Word process together to present their own poems.

Internet Resources: For information about the symbolism of the Poppy: http://www.poppy.org.uk/pages/page01_4.cfm
The British Legion http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/welcome.cfm
Remembrance day poetry: http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/remembrance.html