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Year 4 pathway
Year 4 history, step by step
Four steps covering the whole of Year 4 history. Every lesson ends with a real source — an object, a map or a record — and a question to answer using it.
History
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Sources in this step
- Hadrian's Wall — Begun AD 122, The Roman army in Britain. A wall this big took years and thousands of workers. What does that tell you about how much Rome wanted Britain?
- Roman objects from Britain — 1st–4th century AD, People living in Roman Britain. A coin has an emperor's head on it. How could that single object help you date everything found next to it?
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Step 1 quiz: The Romans in Britain
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
One quiz per lesson
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Quiz: Why did the Romans come to Britain?
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
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Quiz: Putting the Romans on a timeline
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
- •Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study
Sources in this step
- The Sutton Hoo ship burial — Buried early 7th century AD, An East Anglian royal household. The grave held coins made overseas. What does that tell you about Anglo-Saxon England — and what does it still not tell you?
- Roman roads still on the map — Roman roads, modern maps, Ordnance Survey and earlier surveyors. Find a suspiciously straight road near you. Is a straight road always Roman? How would you check?
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Step 2 quiz: After the Romans: Anglo-Saxons and Scots
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
One quiz per lesson
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Quiz: Anglo-Saxons and Scots settle in Britain
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
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Quiz: What changed and what stayed the same?
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •Britain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
- •Note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms
Sources in this step
- The Rosetta Stone — 196 BC, Egyptian priests, under Ptolemy V. Why was having the same words in three scripts so much more useful than a longer text in hieroglyphs alone?
- Objects from Tutankhamun's tomb — Buried about 1323 BC, found 1922, Egyptian craftworkers; excavated by Howard Carter's team. Write one question about Egyptian beliefs that these objects could answer, and one they could not.
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Step 3 quiz: Ancient Egypt
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
One quiz per lesson
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Quiz: The first civilisations and the gift of the Nile
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
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Quiz: Asking historical questions worth answering
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •The achievements of the earliest civilizations – an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of Ancient Egypt
- •Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance
Sources in this step
- Census returns for England and Wales — Every ten years from 1841, Government enumerators and householders. The census gives a job but not a wage. What can it tell you about a street, and what can it never tell you?
- Historic Ordnance Survey maps of your area — 1840s onwards, Ordnance Survey surveyors. Compare two maps of your street fifty years apart. What is new, what has gone, and what has not moved at all?
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Step 4 quiz: How do we know? Sources and your own place
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
One quiz per lesson
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Quiz: How do we know? Reading a source
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
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Quiz: Your own local history study
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources
- •A local history study
Where this leads
These steps build the habits Year 8 history uses every lesson: dating things properly, weighing change against continuity, and asking what a source can and cannot prove.