This book provides exciting displays and activities for delivering a creative curriculum through history. Useful for ages 4-11 years, this new title from the best-selling World of Display series explores popular primary history themes through original and creative art and design technology activities. The emphasis is on child-led activities and the ideas are colourful and original in 2D and 3D. The chapters of the book include original ideas of popular primary history topics such as Toys, Homes, The seaside, Ancient Britain, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and The Tudors, The Aztecs and many more.Example themes include: Tudor Shoe Making; My Own Sarcophaghus; A Victorian Classroom; 3D Anglo-Saxon homes; and, Aztec Stone Carving. This book also contains projects suitable for the whole class or small group work; Themes that provide a complete project through art and design techology linked to the history focus, allowing for a cross-curricular approach to planning and teaching history; And, 11 creative chapters that explore the history curriculum through art and display and design and technology. Also, each theme contains: Background information; A clear resource list; Step by step instructions as to how complete the activities; And display areas.

Rebecca Carnihan