2S - History

Lesson: History

Today, we began our new History topic 'Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart'.

We already know lots about Neil Armstrong as we learned about him in Year 1.

To begin our topic, we started looking at the life of Amelia Earhart and how her childhood adventures carved the way for her future.  She was always a very adventurous, daring child and at the age of 7 built her own mini rollercoaster which she ultimately crashed and told her sister that it felt like she was flying. She also saw the Wright brothers with her father in 1908 and in 1920, at the age of 23, had her first short flight in a plane.

We talked about the career path she chose and the fact she couldn't settle down in a job moving from nursing to mechanic to medical research before becoming an aviator.

We discovered that she was a trailblazer as she became the first woman to fly at 14,000 feet before being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

We then had a debate about whether or not we would have taken the flight across the Atlantic. Based on our answers, we split into two groups and discussed reasons then nominated spokespersons to put forward our arguments. This resulted in some people changing their minds.

We then wrote down our reasons in our History books (see two examples in photos).