KS3 - History - Learning: National Waterfront Museum
The National Waterfront Museum is delighted to offer for the first time, two new sessions for Key Stage 3 history, with particular relevance for year 9.
These sessions have been devised by a successful head of history and will help students develop critical thinking based on enquiry and interpretation skills.
The visits will be enhanced by pre-visit and post-visit classroom work on the subject area.
Immigration - Interpretation
Croeso? Did we keep a welcome in Wales?
This session can be used as a stand alone lesson on interpretation or as part of a unit 'the changes that happened in Wales, Britain and the wider world between 1760 – 1914 onwards, and peoples’ reactions to them.
Teachers can also use it to help build up their own local to international investigations on immigration.
High Hopes - Interpretation
Did nineteenth century towns allow people to prosper and meet their expectations?
This session can be used as part of a unit on The Industrial Revolution, linking and interpreting its impact on the lives of people in 1851.
Both sessions will help develop the following skills:
Historical Skills:
Knowledge and understanding
Pupils will be given the opportunity to:
- recognise some of the characteristic features of the period and the diversity of experience within each one
- describe ,analysis and explain patterns and relationships e.g. the causes and consequences of the historical events, situations and changes studied.
Historical enquiry
Pupils will be given the opportunity to:
- ask and answer significant questions
- identify strategies for historical enquiry
- independently use a range of sources in their historical context
- select and summarise information accurately from sources.
- reflect on their findings.
- record and evaluate the information acquired, reaching reasoned conclusions
Interpretations of history
Pupils will be given the opportunity to:
- consider differing views and representations of some historical events and changes and why they have been represented in this way.
- apply their historical knowledge to analyse and evaluate interpretations.
When pupils return to the classroom they will be able to identify and begin to assess why some historical interpretations are more valid than others.
Organisation and communication
Pupils will be given the opportunity to:
- select, recall and organise historical information
- begin to organise ideas and arguments to help them to understand the historical issues and developments studied
Post Visit
Classroom opportunities
- To evaluate the information acquired reaching reasoned conclusions
- Use necessary vocabulary to communicate findings, ideas and opinions with increasing independence in a variety of ways, including extended writing, graphs, charts, visual and oral presentations and a range of ICT.
