1C History Lesson 3 and 4

Lesson: History

Class: Year 1 - 1C Year: 2021 - 2022

Lesson 3 objective: explain why the fire spred so quickly.

In this lesson we got into teams and had to discuss the reasons why the Great Fire of London spread so quickly. We then had to record our ideas on post-it notes and race against the other teams to see who could post the most facts within a specified time limit. The rules of our quiz were; only 1 person allowed to write at one time, only one person from the team allowed out of their seets and the next person could not leave the table until the other runner had returned and was sat down. This was great fun! We were able to recall lots of facts from our previous lesson.

We used all of our newly learned knowledge to records the reasons in our books.

Lesson 4 objective: Create a plan of what London should look like after the Great Fire.

In this lesson learned all about Sir Christopher Wren and his plans to rebuild a safer London after the Great Fire.We looked at the features that he included in his plans then studied and compared an old map of London to a new map of London and discussed the differences. We then set about creating our own plans of how London should be set out,; ensuring that we considered Sir Christopher Wren's criteria ( wider, straighter roads to enable trucks to travel through, round- abouts to enable fire trucks to turn around, houses made of bricks and stone, building not too close to the river and the house not being built too close together).