Take your students on a journey through time with this engaging and informative lesson focused on how houses and settlements have changed from the prehistoric era to the modern day. This fully-resourced and editable ActivInspire flipchart guides learners through historical housing developments, key time periods, and changing materials in home construction.
Perfect for cross-curricular links between History, Geography, and Design & Technology, this lesson encourages curiosity, comparison, and reasoning.
What’s Included:
- Editable ActivInspire flipchart (10 slides) (PDF included).
- Clear learning objective and key vocabulary.
- Integrated YouTube link showcasing how homes have changed
- Discussion prompts and timeline matching task
- Cut-and-stick timeline activity with historical house illustrations
Covers housing across major historical eras:
-Prehistoric
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Medieval
- Early Modern
- Industrial Revolution
- 20th Century
- Modern Day
Key Features:
- Encourages chronological thinking, vocabulary development, and visual analysis
- Editable ActivInspire flipchart – easily adapted to suit your class and local curriculum
- Great for building background knowledge before local history studies or urban development projects
Perfect For:
- KS2 (Years 3–6)
- Used as part of the IPC (International Primary Curriculum) unit ‘Homes and Houses’.
- History or Geography topics (settlements, homes, materials, chronology/timelines)
- Whole-class lessons, cross-curricular units, or as a standalone enrichment activity
- Cover lessons or homework follow-up
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