This session comprises 2 principal activities: matching descriptions of lifeboats to time periods to deepen pupils’ sense of change, continuity and chronology; sequencing and then selecting images for a Museum about most significant changes to sea rescue since Grace Darling’s time.
Learning objectives
- Children can describe two ways in which sea rescue improved
- Children can match then and now statements
Step 1
Ask children to think in pairs about the similarities and differences between lifeboats in Grace’s time and those that children may have seen today, for just a minute, after which time you project slide 2 which might give some extra ideas as well as acting as a visual focus for those who need it.
Step 2
To bring the differences into sharper focus attempt the activity using RS1 which invites pupils to match the statements to the time period. You’ll need to cut up the statements and
