A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on Changes within living memory. Written for Year 1 (ages 5-6). Pick it up at lunchtime, teach it that afternoon - every lesson has a full teacher script, projectable slides, a pupil worksheet, and an exit quiz.
Driving question: How have the ways we move changed?

What’s included

• 6 x Teacher lesson plans (Word, fully scripted)
• 6 x Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 6 x Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, ~22 slides each)
• 6 x Exit quizzes (single-page printable, with answer key)
• 1 x Knowledge Organiser (Word, 2-page A4 landscape)
• 1 x End-of-unit assessment with baseline + mark scheme
• 50+ original illustrations included throughout
• Curated kid-appropriate YouTube videos linked from each lesson’s slide deck

Curriculum links

• UK National Curriculum - KS1 History: Changes within living memory
• how people moved about long ago - walking, horses and carts, sailing ships
• the first steam train (Stephenson’s Rocket and the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1825)
• the first motor cars (Karl Benz, 1885) and the first aeroplane (the Wright brothers, 1903) - events beyond living memory that are significant nationally and globally
• changes within living memory - how transport changed when grandparents and great-grandparents were children
• modern transport today - cars, buses, lorries, aeroplanes, high-speed trains and electric cars

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know that long ago most people walked or used horses, and travelled far by sailing ship
• Pupils know that George Stephenson’s steam train opened in 1825 - the first passenger steam railway
• Pupils know that Karl Benz built the first motor car in 1885, and the Wright brothers made the first aeroplane in 1903
• Pupils know that when grandparents were little (1950s-60s) most families did not have a car
• Pupils know that today we have cars, buses, lorries, aeroplanes, high-speed trains and electric cars
• Pupils know that transport has changed FAST - in 200 years humans have gone from horses to spacecraft

What pupils will be able to do

• Pupils can use simple time words - long ago, ago, before, after, now
• Pupils can sort transport into ‘long ago’ and ‘today’