History · Year 1

Our Local History: People and Places Near Us

🏛️ HistoryEasy9 min
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🔗 🔍 Match each local source to the clue it gives us about the past.

  • Old photograph

  • Historic building

  • Old map

  • Street name

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🗂️ 🗂️ Sort these things into two groups: Is each one a local SOURCE we can use, or a local PERSON who might be significant?

  • An old photograph of the high street

  • A Victorian map of the town

  • A nurse who helped people in the community

  • A builder who constructed the local school

  • A carved stone on an old church wall

  • An inventor who was born in the town

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🧩 📅 A class is investigating their local park. Put these history detective steps in the correct order, from first to last.

  1. Share what you found out and explain why the park is significant
  2. Study the sources: Look for clues about the past
  3. Find sources: Look at old photographs and maps of the park
  4. Ask a question: Who made our local park and when?

Quiz time! 📝

Local History: People and Places Quiz 🏘️

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