Travel and Transport Topic - Lesson 8: History | The invention of the train

With easy-to-follow lesson plans, a PDF slideshow for every lesson, differentiated activity ideas and a range of colourful, engaging printable resources (including worksheets, picture cards, help sheets, challenges and much more), this Travel and Transport Year 1/2 planning pack contains everything you need - watch as your KS1 class become engaged with this travel and transport topic!

A Knowledge Organiser is available to support the learning for the History lessons in this scheme. It is included in the Complete Topic download and the 'ALL History lessons in Topic' download, or it can be purchased individually.

You might also be interested in our KS1 DT lesson pack, Making Fire Engines, as an accompaniment to this Travel and Transport topic.

Download these Travel and Transport Art KS1 planning packs to get instant access to three ready-to-teach art projects for your Year 1 or Year 2 class. Covering a variety of art skills and techniques, these three lessons provide fun travel and transport art ideas that you can teach over one session, or spread over several.

Use paints and paper to create a sailing scene, make a model hot air balloon or challenge your class to portray their life journey in a creative way – whichever of these travel and transport art ideas you choose, they're sure to create some artwork to be proud of!

Each of these three lessons comes fully planned and ready to teach, including a lesson plan, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources to support your class as they create their travel and transport art.

These three Geography lessons are the perfect way to incorporate Geography into your Travel and Transport cross-curricular topic. Your KS1 children will have the chance to explore and develop a range of geographical skills, including carrying out and analysing a survey, navigating around a map, and using compass points to describe directions.

These three Travel and Transport Geography lessons come fully prepared and ready to teach. There are three detailed lesson plans (each with three-way differentiation), three PDF slideshows for each of the teaching inputs, and three sets of printable resources, including worksheets, games, maps and more, meaning you can just download, teach and enjoy!

This History of Transport KS1 planning pack contains five engaging History lessons that explore the history of transport from the earliest canoes to the latest space missions! Your class will explore how inventions such as trains and motor cars transformed how people got around, and what impact this had on the world.

These lessons come fully planned and ready to deliver to your class. Each one has a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources, including worksheets, challenges, picture cards, games and more! All you need to do is download, teach and enjoy learning about the history of transport with your class!

Explore the theme of travel and journeys with your KS1 class using this set of ready-to-teach 'Moses and the Exodus' RE lessons. Across the three lessons, your Year 1 or Year 2 children will read the story of the Israelites who were enslaved in Egypt, how they escaped, and their long, forty-year journey across the desert to reach the Promised Land.

Each of these three 'Moses and the Exodus' RE lessons comes completely ready to deliver. There are detailed lesson plans, a PDF slideshow for each of the teaching inputs (which guide and question your class as they read the stories together), differentiated activity ideas and a range of engaging printable resources to support your class as they carry out their independent learning.

Download these lessons to help deliver Travel and Transport Science experiments and activities to your KS1 class! This series of four lessons is a great way to incorporate science into your cross-curricular Travel and Transport topic and they come fully prepared and ready to teach, making them ideal if you're looking to save time on your planning! There is a detailed lesson plan for each lesson, a PDF slideshow for the teaching inputs, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources to support children in their independent learning.

These lessons link to the National Curriculum objectives and will challenge your class to identify and group different materials, describe the properties of materials, and investigate objects to see whether they float or sink.

Your class is challenged to create some boat art in this Art lesson! This lesson starts by showing your class some examples of boats in paintings by other artists, before giving them the chance to create their marine masterpieces using a variety of media, including paint, collage and origami.

This lesson is completely ready to teach and deliver. It includes a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and printable resources to support children as they create their boat artwork.

This Papier Mache Hot Air Balloon lesson plan will challenge your KS1 class to make their own colourful hot air balloons! The included slideshow for the teaching input starts by explaining what a hot air balloon is and showing some photos of hot air balloons in flight. It then goes on to show some helpful step-by-step photos for how to create a papier-mache hot air balloon using simple materials and techniques.

Children can then follow this method for themselves to design, create and evaluate their own papier mache hot air balloons. There are several printable resources to support children as they do this.

This fun and flexible Life Journey Art lesson for KS1 children encourages your Year 1 or Year 2 class to think about how life can be a journey. They will think about key events that have happened in their lives and ponder what the rest of their life journey may have in store, before thinking about how they can express this artistically.

This lesson comes prepared and ready to teach; there's an easy-to-follow lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow for the teaching input (which shows an example of how they could express their life journey as artwork), and a range of printable resources, including templates, to use as the basis for their artwork.

However your class chooses to express their art journey, you're sure to end up with some fabulous artwork that is perfect for a classroom display!

How do you get to school? How do other people travel to school? In this Geography lesson, your KS1 class will investigate how people travel to school in the mornings, using tally charts to collect information and pictograms to present what they have found out.

The included slideshow for the teaching input models how to use tally charts to collect data, and then how to translate this data into a pictogram. Children can then practise this for themselves as they gather information using the differentiated activities provided.

By the end of the lesson, your class will be able to identify the most and least popular ways of getting to school from the graphs and charts they have created.

This KS1 Map Work lesson shows your class a simple map of a fictional town and teaches them how to navigate around the area using compass directions. They will soon be directing each other successfully from the bank to the café and from school to the police station!

The included slideshow presentation guides your class through the process of navigating around a map whilst asking questions to check their understanding. They can then carry out some map work of their own as they use the printable resources to navigate around the map of the town using compass directions.

This KS1 Geography lesson for Year 1 and Year 2 children makes teaching compass directions fun and easy! The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input shows your class a map of the world, and introduces the five oceans and seven continents. After a recap of the four compass points and how they can be used for directions, your class will find out how to hop from continent to continent using compass directions to help them. They will go through plenty of examples as a class while they get the hang of it.

There are then a series of differentiated worksheets and activities the children can use to practise what they have learned. Alternatively, there is a fun board game provided so children can have a go at using compass directions to travel around a world map in a fun and challenging way!

In this first lesson, children begin by identifying different types of transport, and talking about which they have used. They will discover that boats were the first type of transport to be invented thousands of years ago. The invention of the wheel then led to animal-drawn carts and carriages.

Children will learn that it is only in the last few hundred years that many of the types of transport we have today were invented. In their independent activities, they will sort types of transport according to whether they were invented within or beyond living memory.

This ready-to-teach lesson pack includes a plan, a PDF slide show and a range of engaging activity ideas and resources.

Children will learn about the invention of the first locomotive and what they were used for. They discuss the differences that trains and railways made to people’s lives, the towns they lived in and the kind of holidays they might take.

In their independent activities, children will compare train travel in the Victorian era with modern-day train travel using photographs as sources.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, and printable resources are all included in this lesson pack.

In this lesson, your class will discover the process that led up to the invention of motor cars and the people who used them.

Children will be encouraged to think about the reasons people owned cars, and how the invention changed people’s lives. They also compare the ways cars have changed from the early 1900s to more modern cars.

This ready-to-teach lesson pack includes a plan, a PDF slide show and a range of engaging activity ideas and resources.

In this lesson, children are introduced to the Wright brothers and their fascination with flying. They will learn about their inventions and how this led to many different uses for planes, including the World Wars and passenger flights.

In their independent activities, they will demonstrate their knowledge by completing or writing a newspaper article about the first engine-powered flight.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, and printable resources are all included in this lesson pack.

In this final lesson, children will learn that space travel has been achieved in living memory. They will focus on the events of the first moon landing.

In their independent activities, children will demonstrate their understanding by putting events in chronological order. In the alternative activity, children work as a class to ask and answer questions using the Teach Me, Tell Me game.

This ready-to-teach lesson pack includes a plan, a PDF slide show and a range of engaging activity ideas and resources.

This is the first in a set of three Exodus lesson plans exploring the story of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt, and why the story of this amazing journey is important to Christians, Jews and Muslims.

This lesson introduces Moses, looks at why the Israelites wanted to escape from Pharaoh, and explores how God sent ten plagues to the Egyptians.

Complete with a plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a set of printable resources, this lesson comes ready to teach!

This Moses and the Red Sea lesson for KS1 children starts by recapping the part of the story they already know, then goes on to explore how the Israelites left Egypt and started on their long journey to the promised land.

Your class will find out about Moses and the Red Sea, and consider how the Israelites might have been feeling at different points of the story.

This lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach with a detailed lesson plan, slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources.

Now that the Israelites had successfully escaped from Egypt, they were free to find the Promised Land. This lesson tells your class the story of the 40-year wander through the desert and what God provided for the Israelites, including food, water and a set of rules to live by - the Ten Commandments.

This lesson also challenges your class to think about how the Israelites might have felt once their long journey was finally over and they reached the land God had promised them so long ago.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, and printable resources are all included in this lesson pack.

This Materials Hunt Science lesson starts by looking at a variety of different materials, including wood, metal, plastic and glass. Your children will find out where these materials come from, and some of the ways in which they are used.

Your class then go on a materials hunt of their own as they travel around the school finding examples of each of these different materials!

This lesson is fully planned and ready to teach. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

Challenge your KS1 class to think about which travel objects they would need to take with them on a holiday, then identify what material each one is made from.

Children are challenged to describe what each material is like, and sort objects according to their properties, from sunglasses and swimming suits to combs and coins!

This lesson pack contains everything you need, including a plan with three-way differentiation, a PDF slideshow for the teaching input, and printable resources to support your children as they work through the activities.

This Vehicle Materials lesson gives your KS1 class the chance to take a closer look at some different vehicles, identify the different parts, and think about what material each part is made from.

They will then describe and group a variety of vehicles based on the materials they contain, and are challenged to reflect on why each material was chosen to make each part.

This lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach with a detailed lesson plan, slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources.

This Floating and Sinking KS1 Science lesson challenges your class to create a floating boat bath toy. They will start by looking at some different examples of boats and the materials they are made from, before thinking about how they can find out which materials would be suitable.

Children will carry out an experiment to see which materials float and which sink, before deciding which material would be best for the purpose at hand, and why.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, and printable resources are all included within this lesson pack.