Primary Schools Teacher Resources
INVESTIGATING TENEMENT GAMES
Your class will learn about games and pastimes in the tenements. Using different pieces of evidence, they will investigate games in tenement times, and use their skills as historians to gather new evidence of games in the past and the present for their own museum.
Working as a historian:
- Using evidence
Connects to the following strands in the history curriculum:
- 1st - 2nd class
When my grandparents were youngMyself
My family or the family of a person known to me
Games in the past
3rd - 4th class
Stories from the lives of people in the past
Life in the 19th century: leisure and pastimes
Games and pastimes in the past
5th - 6th class
Games and pastimes in the past: street games
Stories from the lives of people in the past
Life in the 19th century
Language and culture in late 19th and early 20th-century Ireland
Life during World War II
Life in Ireland since the 1950s
Subject integration:
- Geography: Human environments—People living and working in the local area
- Physical education: Games
- Science: Living Things - Myself
- SPHE: Myself and the wider world—Developing citizenship