2012 Curriculum

Year 5 - My London: "It Happened Here!" (Past London Games)

Key Skills I can identify the different ways that the past can be represented; I can ask and answer questions about the past; I can see how buildings can change over time and how its uses can reflect society; I can demonstrate how important the Games were in 1948 and in 2012;

• Look at old news reel footage of the 1948 Olympic Games;
  

Activities

• Make notes about the visual differences between then and now, taking into account what had happened prior to the 1948 games;
  
• Read reports from 1948 and make notes comparing the responses of the public then and now;
  
• Research into where the Olympic Sites were in 1948 and look at how London has
  changed since then;
• Look at range of games in which participants took part and compare with today;
  
• Look at biographies/photos of athletes then and now, compare;
  

• Information presented in a variety of ways – diagrams, charts, written work, photographs to depict the work that has been researched;
  

Past olympic games - site 1 | site 2 | site 3 |