2012 Curriculum

Year 2 - My Future: "Back to the future" (Role play and imagining the future)

Key Skills I can write a recount; I can make predictions about the future; I can think of appropriate questions for a visitor I can use a question mark correctly; I can use the correct tone to ask a question; I can write from the perspective of a character I can plan, design and evaluate an invention;

• Children to have a 'future afternoon', (wearing silver clothes, calling the class
  'Mars class', turning the classroom into a spaceship);

Activities

• Write up the entry point;
• Given a street scene. Draw what they think that street will look like in 50 years? (Aliens, flying cars, more buildings);
• Tell them a special guest is coming from the future, what questions have you got for them? Children to write questions using ‘wh’ words. (TA/adult to come in dressed futuristically to answer questions);
• Drama – children to imagine they are from future/are meeting someone from the future;
• Write a postcard from the perspective of the future visitor to his friends in the future. What would they find weird or old fashioned about our lives?;
• Think of something that annoys you (getting out of bed, opening wrappers, doing chores). Design an invention they will have in the future to solve that problem;
  

• A recount;
• A picture predicting the future;
• A piece of work with questions, demarcated accurately;
  
• Role play as a time traveller;
• A postcard from the perspective of a time traveller;
  
• A design for an invention for the future;
  

- Props to turn class into spaceship
- Blank postcards
- Scrap project resources for junk modelling