Lessons & Exemplars
The Nuffield Primary History project developed a range of approaches and techniques for doing history with children, between and 1991 and 2009. The resources produced by the project are all real lessons which have been taught by real teachers. They include guidance on teaching and examples of children's work. Many of the lessons have been developed by teachers as part of their continuing professional development. A narrative style was used to describe the lesson and what happened. Read more
Teaching Methods & Leading Primary History
Exemplars & Study Units
- Victorian Britain: short lessons and exemplars
- Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction
- Teaching Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings in Britain
- Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings
- Outline plan using key questions: Vikings example
- Lessons with strong literacy links
Lessons - Key Stage 1
- Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)
- Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1) - more lessons
- Gunpowder plot at key stage 1
- The Great Plague of London (KS1)
- Roman market (KS1 or KS2)
- Roman Baths
Lessons - Britain since the 1930s
- Changes within Living Memory
- World War II medals at KS2 and Remembrance Day
- Children in the Second World War
- Evacuees: Children during World War II
- Jarrow Crusade
- Propaganda and its power
Lessons - The World Wars
- The Blitz - Lesson Ideas - Film
- World War II medals at KS2 and Remembrance Day
- Children in the Second World War
- Evacuees: Children during World War II
- Propaganda and its power
- Remembrance Day at KS1
Lessons - Tudors & Stuarts
- Teaching and learning about Grace O'Malley as a significant woman at Key Stage 1
- Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)
- Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1) - more lessons
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Investigating Henry VIII
- Reformation
Ancient Greece, Egypt, Sumeria & the Aztecs
- Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction
- Citizenship in Ancient Greece: case study
- Visual image: boxing boys fresco from Ancient Greece
- Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy
- Ancient Egypt
- Aztec Experience
Lessons - The Victorians
- Victorian Britain: short lessons and exemplars
- Victorian Britain: a brief history
- Introducing the Empire through coins
- Investigating Victorian mining disasters
- Brunel and Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Famous People: Florence Nightingale (KS1)
Lessons - Urban Spaces
- Urban spaces
- Urban spaces near you: cross-curricular work
- Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design
- Gordon & Woburn Squares
- Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Literacy
- Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Science