Primary Schools Teacher Resources
HENRIETTA STREET THEN AND NOW
In this activity, your class will place different images of Henrietta Street on a timeline, discuss what has changed and stayed the same over time. They will put the history of the street against a timeline of wider events, and their own personal history, and imagine what the street might be like in the future.
Working as a historian:
- Time and chronology
- Change and continuity
Connects to the following strands in the history curriculum:
- 1st - 2nd class
Myself
Change & continuity in the local environment - 3rd - 4th class
Homes
Buildings, sites or ruins in my locality
My locality through the ages
Continuity and change over time
Life in the 18th century
Life in the 19th century
Homes and houses - 5th - 6th class
Homes
Buildings, sites or ruins in my locality
My locality through the ages
Life in the 18th century
Life in the 19th century
Homes, housing, and urban developments
Subject integration:
- Geography: Human environments—People living and working in the local area
- Science: Living Things - Myself
- SPHE: Myself—Growing and changing
- Visual arts