This ICT based lesson draws heavily on the superb new website created as a joint enterprise by the National Archives, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of London and London Fire Brigade Museum. It appears on the Learning Curve section of the National Archives site. The interactive simulation, with sound, great graphics and brilliant source material, looks at the Great Fire from start to finish through the eyes of two children, Tom and Jane. It takes you through the action day by day, giving you tasks to do, interspersed with questions concerning ‘How do we know?’, each of which requires pupils to make a selection. This lesson joins the action on Monday with the Great Fire in full swing. But how will it be put out? Pupils help Tom using a range of click and drag activities. It is recommended that you use this as a whole class activity on the Interactive
