With the help of the slow reveal of the clues in carefully arranged order, pupils build their knowledge of Amy Johnson’s significance and write their own brief caption to accompany a new set of stamps commemorating her achievement.
Learning objectives
- Pupils are able to make inferences from visual clues and can link back a generation to the work of the Wright brothers.
- Pupils can predict why Amy Johnson might be famous.
Starter
Pupils are shown slide 2 from the PowerPoint presentation which offers only a hint as to the reason for Amy Johnson’s fame. Many children will guess wildly. This is fine. Use slide 3 which gives four possible options to see if that helps. What matters is that they build on their growing knowledge as more clues are revealed. Now move to slide 4 which reveals a more illuminating image of her in three stages. After each stage of the reveal ask pupils to have another informed guess. After slide 4 they might well say that she was an old-fashioned pilot. Slide 5 confirms this, as does slide 6 the front cover of a new children’s book about her. So they know she is a pilot of some sort.
