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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

 

Tasks 1-3