A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally. Written for Year 2 (ages 6-7). Pick it up at lunchtime, teach it that afternoon - every lesson has a full teacher script, projectable slides, a pupil worksheet, and an exit quiz.
Driving question: How did humans first walk on the Moon?

What’s included

• 6 x Teacher lesson plans (Word, fully scripted)
• 6 x Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 6 x Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, ~22 slides each)
• 6 x Exit quizzes (single-page printable, with answer key)
• 1 x Knowledge Organiser (Word, 2-page A4 landscape)
• 1 x End-of-unit assessment with baseline + mark scheme
• 50+ original illustrations included throughout
• Curated kid-appropriate YouTube videos linked from each lesson’s slide deck

Curriculum links

• UK National Curriculum - KS1 History: Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally
• the Apollo 11 mission of July 1969 - the first humans to walk on the Moon
• the role of NASA (the American space agency) and the wider Space Race
• in 1961 President Kennedy promised to land Americans on the Moon ‘before this decade is out’

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know that on 20 July 1969 the Apollo 11 mission landed two American astronauts on the Moon
• Pupils can name Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (Lunar Module pilot) and Michael Collins (Command Module pilot)
• Pupils know NASA is the American space agency that ran the Apollo programme from 1961 to 1972
• Pupils know President Kennedy promised in 1961 to land Americans on the Moon ‘before this decade is out’
• Pupils know the rocket was called SATURN V and the landing site was the Sea of Tranquillity
• Pupils can give one reason why we still remember the Moon landing today

What pupils will be able to do

• Pupils can use simple time words - before, then, after, finally
• Pupils can analyse a real primary source (a sentence from the Apollo 11 voice transcript) for what it tells us
• Pupils can sequence the main events of the mission in the right order
• Pupils can give a reasoned answer to ‘why was the Moon landing so important?’