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Year Group 2
Curriculum Area: History Unit 4 - Why do we remember Grace Darling?

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Overview

Introduction
Preparatory work
The Lesson
Introduction

This lesson plan contributes to QCA History Study Unit 4 – Why do we remember Grace Darling? It provides a ready-made PowerPoint, with clear illlustrations and text to enable teachers to introduce Grace Darling and the main events that made her famous. It also provides ready made resource (in Word or Textease) for pupils to use to sequence the main aspects of the story of her bravery. The lesson provides questions to use as prompts for valuable historical discussion. The lesson plan allows the teacher to effectively illustrate procedures to show children how to sequence a set of images using drag and drop and then add text in the relevant places. This lesson takes advantage of the opportunities provided by the speech facilities available in Talking First Word and Textease enabling children to work more independently and test and confirm what they have written.
The activity described in this lesson plan could easily be adapted to study the life of any other famous person

 

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ICT competences required by

Teacher

  • use of data projector if available
  • ability to open and show the ready made PowerPoint presentation Grace Darling.ppt
  • ability to demonstrate dragging and dropping of images into an appropriate sequence using a table in Word

Child

  • drag and drop to sequence images
  • ability to add text to a table
The Learning Objectives

Pupils should learn:
  • about the life of a famous person from the past and why she acted as she did?
  • to infer information from a written or visual account of a person's life

Resources

Vocabulary

Words associated with the passage of time e.g. Victorian, a very long time ago, before, after, when
A range of adjectives to describe human qualities, e.g. kind, caring, patient, hard-working, brave

Preparatory work

Download the PowerPoint presentation from the website: Grace Darling .ppt on to the demonstration computer. To download the file right click on the link and select Save As. Save the presentation in a folder or location where it will be easily accessible when you need to view it. If the pupils will use Word or Talking First Word download the document Grace Darling Sequence.doc and put it into a shared area on the network or on each pupil’s computer. If pupils will use Textease download the Textease document Grace Darling Sequence instead.
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The Lesson

Whole Class Teaching

Teacher opens the ready made PowerPoint presentation, Grace Darling.ppt and shows slide 1. Teacher explains that the class is going to see a number of pictures which illustrate the story of Grace Darling.

Q What is this person doing? Where might she be?

Show Slide 2 and read through the text.
Q Who was Grace Darling?
She was the daughter of the lighthouse keeper. You may wish to discuss the work of a lighthouse keeper and where the Farne Islands are located.

Show slide 3 and read through the text.
Q What important job did William and Grace have to do?
Q What do you think it would be like living on this island?

Show slide 4 and read the text
Q What happened on this stormy night?
Q How do you think the people on the ship felt?

Show slide 5 and read the text
Q How do you think Grace felt when she saw the ship on the rocks?

Show slide 6 and read the text.

Show slide 7 and read the text
Q What were the weather conditions like?
Q How do you think Grace and her father felt when they arrived on Little Farne?

Show slide 8 and read the text

Show slide 9 and read the text?
Q What does this story tell you about Grace Darling?

Slide 10 has been deliberately left blank.
Do not show slide 11 yet.

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Main Activity

Explain to the children that their task will be to sequence a set of five images from the story of Grace Darling, either using Textease or Word.

If children are not familiar with dragging and dropping images into a table the teacher will need to demonstrate this technique.

Children, working in pairs on the computers, should open the Word file Grace Darling Sequence.doc or the Textease document Grace Darling Sequence.t2 and drag the images into the appropriate space in the table. They should then click their mouse in the space underneath each picture to write a sentence to help them recount her story. If children are using Textease or Talking First Word they can have their sentences read to them.

Encourage children not only to recount the story but also to make inferences about Grace Darling's character.
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Plenary

Draw children back together and recap the correct sequence of images.

Show slide 11 which has a photograph of a memorial to Grace Darling

Q Why would people want to have a statue of Grace Darling?

Q Do you know of any other statues of famous people?

Why use ICT

Demonstrating: Using ICT the teacher can effectively illustrate procedures to show children how to sequence a set of images using drag and drop and then add text in the relevant places.

Accessing and analysing: ICT gives the opportunity to use a variety of approaches that incorporate children preferred learning styles. It allows access to information in multi-media format that can be easily differentiated to accommodate different learning styles and approaches. The use of ICT to quickly change the information provides the teacher with opportunities to engage with children and, in particular, facilitates analysis and interrogation.

Presenting, re-presenting and communicating: ICT opens up a new opportunity for presentation. By presenting the life of Grace Darling in multimedia format, the presentation is more exciting and engaging, creating motivating outcomes it enables the teacher to focus children on specific features and further explore, unpack or elucidate the content. Once the presentation is created it forms a reusable resource.

Testing and confirming
In this vignette the use of ICT takes advantage of the opportunities provided by the speech facilities available in Talking First Word and Textease enabling children to work more independently and test and confirm what they have written.


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