metal wheels with teeth that fit together and help machines move; in Babbage’s machine, the gears turned one another to add or change numbers

someone whose ideas or actions help make the world a better place

Ada Lovelace, the woman who imagined computers

History

Al-Razi, the doctor who cared for everyone

Nicolas Copernicus, the man who moved the Earth

Marie Curie, the woman who lit up science

Sophia Duleep Singh, the princess who fought for women to have the vote

Nelson Mandela, the man who forgave

In ‘Significant individuals: how did they change the world?’ pupils learnt about six significant individuals from different periods to develop their chronological and substantive understanding. In ‘Stone Age Britain: what do archaeologists think they know about it?’ they begin to investigate more ways in which we know about the past.

In ‘Queen Victoria: how did Britain change during her lifetime?’ pupils built on their chronological and substantive knowledge in a depth study of Queen Victoria and Victorian Britain. In ‘Significant individuals: how did they change the world?’ they encounter six significant individuals from different periods to develop this further.

These stories of significant individuals from different periods help students understand when change has occurred due to individual agency. They learn about the diversity of those who have brought about change and gain a broader sense of history and curiosity about the past.

Significant individuals: how did they change the world?

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

What did most girls **not** study when Ada was growing up?

the girl who loved numbers and imagined new ideas

Match each person or thing to its correct description.

It helped people understand how the machine might work.

It told people how to build tall London houses.

What made Ada’s writing so important to others?

Ada thought the machine could do more than {{}} and subtract.

Which word matches this definition: 'someone whose ideas or actions help make the world a better place'?

Which statements are true about Ada Lovelace?

ringing the bells of the tall brick church

What did Copernicus spend many evenings doing?

What did most people believe about the Earth during Nicolas Copernicus' time?

Which word means 'finding out something important for the first time'?

Copernicus noticed that the {{}} moved in strange loops that did not match the old belief.

people who learn about science and carry out investigations

a tool that helps people see faraway things in the sky

Match each word to the correct description.

Which of these was Copernicus’ brave new idea?

Ada Lovelace, the woman who imagined computers

Lesson outcome

Content guidance