INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI

Year 4 Curriculum

History & Geography

Unit 4: Modern History

Learning Objective - H4.1

I can use a time line to place events I have found out about both in this country and abroad.

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Learning Objective - H4.2

I understand that a time line can be divided into periods: Before Christ (Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Maya etc) AD Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians, Today.

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Learning Objective - H4.3

I can describe the main changes in a period in history. (i.e. ‘Social’, ‘religious’, ‘political’, ‘technological’ and ‘cultural’).

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Learning Objective - H4.4

I can name the date of any significant event from the past that I have studied and place it in the right place on a time line.

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Learning Objective - H4.5

I can use words and phrases such as era, period, century, decade, Before Christ, AD, after, before, during etc...

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Learning Objective - H4.6

I can choose reliable sources of factual evidence to describe the houses, clothes, buildings, settlements and way of life of people in the past. I can give my own reasons why changes may have occurred, backed up by evidence I have researched.

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Learning Objective - H4.7

I can describe similarities and differences between some people, events and objects (artifacts).

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Learning Objective - H4.8

I can describe how things I have studied from the past affect life today. I know that people both now and in the past represent events or ideas in a way that persuades others.

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Learning Objective - H4.9

I understand that it is important to know that some evidence from the past (and present) is propaganda, opinion or misinformation, and that this affects interpretations of history.

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Learning Objective - H4.10

I can use documents, printed sources (e.g. archive materials) the Internet, databases, pictures, photographs, music, artifacts, to collect evidence about the past.

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Learning Objective - H4.11

I can choose reliable sources of evidence to help me answer questions, realising that there is often not a single answer to historical questions.

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Learning Objective - H4.12

I can present my findings about the past using my speaking, writing, maths, ICT, drama and drawing skills. I can use dates and terms accurately.

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Learning Objective - H4.13

I can choose the most appropriate way to present my information, which I realise is for an audience.

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