Franklin Watts downloadables for every child s learning journey My Family Remembers offers a look at decades in recent history through the memories of members of a selection of families. Each book uses fascinating text, featured quotations and colour and black and white photographs to provide an in-depth look at the contrasts in life between then and now through the memories of people who actually were there. Worksheets and Questionnaire There are two photocopiable worksheets, a page from the book and a questionnaire template for this title. They stand alone, but using them in conjunction with the book will offer a more complete learning experience. The Harry Potter activity sheet focuses on the Harry Potter phenomenen and book jacket design. The activity uses a variety of skills including drawing an illustration for a front cover and writing a blurb and a short biography of J K Rowling. This activity could lead to a discussion about how books are made and sold. The holidays activity sheet offers a chance for children to talk about their own family holiday experiences as well as asking older people where they went on holiday during the last decade. Planning the packing list for each holiday could lead to related writing activities, such as writing a postcard or planning each holiday, day by day. The final worksheet is a questionnaire template that can be adapted to many of the areas of daily life covered in the book. Children are tasked with asking family members about experiences of the recent past and recording them. Learning objectives To help place events, people and changes into correct periods of time. To learn about characteristic features of life in Britain since the Second World War. To record, select and organise historical information. Literacy objectives Asking relevant questions to clarify, extend and follow up ideas Investigating, selecting, sorting Explaining, reporting, evaluating Titles in the series: Click on the PICTURE below for more information
Harry Potter J K Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, was born in 1965. She started planning the books on a long train journey but it was several years before she finished the first book. She found it difficult to find a publisher until she showed it to Bloomsbury publishing house. They published the first book in 1997 and the rest followed: Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone (1997), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). Inside flap copy goes here often a short biography of the author. Every child growing up in the 2000s knew about Harry Potter. Your task is to use the information here to design a new book jacket for one of the Harry Potter books. The back cover copy goes here what would you say to convince people to buy this book? Title of the book, the author s name and the publisher go on the spine. The book s title goes here in large letters. The inside flap copy goes here often this is a short introduction to the plot. Other titles in the series go here. Author s name J.K. Rowling goes here in large letters. The main cover illustration goes here.
Holidays People took all sorts of holidays during the 2000s. Plane fares became much cheaper so short breaks abroad, as well as longer ones, became more affordable. While some people set off for exotic locations, others decided to explore places in the United Kingdom or revisit favourite spots close to home. What holidays did you take when you were younger, during the 2000s? If you can t remember, ask your parents or your older brothers and sisters. Packing for a holiday can be a nightmare! Make a list of what you will need to pack for a camping holiday by the sea in the UK, and a trip to Paris in France. Draw simple outline shape of a typical pop up tent + Eiffel Tower. Write the packing list for the camping holiday inside the tent. Write the list for the Paris trip inside the Eiffel Tower. Don t forget your passport!
A 2000s questionnaire Use this questionnaire to explore the 2000s. Ask your older brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents questions about what they remember about gadgets in the 2000s. Create further questionnaries to explore other aspects of life, such as shopping, going on holiday, going to school or having fun. Gadgets questionnaire When did you get your first mobile phone? How long have you had a home computer? How did you listen to music (ipod, computer, CD player etc)? What television programmes did you watch? Did you watch online? When did you start using the Internet regularly? How did you use it? What was the best gadget that you bought during the 2000s? Did you still have a camera which used film? When did your friends start joining social networking sites, such as Facebook?