Lesson video

Welcome to our second history lesson, where today we are learning all about a famous person called Amelia Earhart.

We are learning all about different explorers and adventurers during this unit of work.

I'm really excited to get started.

So first, let's recap.

What is a historian? If we're studying history, we are going to be historians.

Can you remember what it is? So a historian is a.

Let's get our slides ready.

Sorry, I haven't even got them up to show you what they are.

Here we go.

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past.

So you remember, we said they study and write about the past.

Did you remember that? You did? Oh, you are so great.

Should we do a cheer? Should we do a rainbow cheer? Do you know how to do those? So take your hand like this and the other hand, and we're going to go like this, and we're going to say, ah, at the same time.

Ready? Ah! Should we do that one more time? Ah! You make a rainbow with your hands.

Great job! Now here is our timetable for today.

We are first learning what is a biography.

We are then looking at an introduction to Amelia Earhart, listening to a story of her life, looking at the story of her life, and then we're drawing the story of her life.

So we're listening, then we're looking, and then we're drawing her life, okay? You will need an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pencil, and your teddy bear, so that they can listen to the story along the way.

So if you do not have your teddy bear, go and get it now so you're ready for today's lesson.

Well done.

Okay, let's do our star words.

Lots of words here, lots of new words we might not know the meaning to.

Are you ready? Stand up where you are.

Star words star words star words! Your turn.

So remember to join in with the actions.

Amelia Earhart.

Explorer.

So remember, an explorer is someone who makes journeys to new and treacherous places.

Explorer.

Aviation.

Aviation is flying of an aircraft.

History.

Solo.

Solo means alone, solo means.

If I am going solo, I am going.

Alone, well done.

Pilot.

Continent.

Good job.

Now here, we have got a picture of Amelia Earhart.

Today we are learning all about a really, really important explorer.

Amelia is the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

She is one of the most well known adventure aviators in American history, that's why there's the American flag up there.

I'm going to tell you all about the story of her life.

This is called a biography.

A biography is a piece of writing that tells true facts and information about someone's life.

It's written by another person.

A biography can be about a famous person or someone you know, like a family member or a friend.

Let's look at the definition of a biography.

Can you use your finger to track along the sentence as I read it, then you're going to read it, ready? On the other side.

A biography is a piece of writing that tells true facts and information about someone's life.

Great job, can you read with me this time? I'll go a bit slower, ready? A biography is a piece of writing that tells true facts and information about someone's life.

Well done.

Can you now write the whole sentence to tell us the definition of what a biography is? Pause the video.

Fantastic, let's check our answers.

Get your coloured pen ready if you have one available.

If you haven't, don't worry, just tick it.

I've got my pen ready.

A biography is a piece of writing that tells true facts and information abut someone's life, great job.

Use your pen to tick those if you get them right.

You might need to pause the video to check.

Well done.

So now I am going to read the story of Amelia Earhart's life.

I'm going to read it three times.

First I'm going to read it, the second time we're going to look at pictures of her life, and then we are going to draw her life, okay? So Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in the United States of America on the 24th of July, 1897.

That's a long time ago, isn't it? Amelia lived with her father, mother, and younger sister, Grace.

She had her first flying lesson when she was 23 years old.

In July, 1921, she bought her first plane.

It was bright yellow, and she named it the Canary.

In May, 1923, she got her pilot's licence, which means she's allowed to fly.

She was only the 16th woman in the whole world to receive one.

In May, 1932, she became the first woman, the first woman, to fly solo, that means on her own, across the Atlantic Ocean.

On the 20th of May, 1937, Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left Oakland in the USA and began her biggest adventure of all, to fly all the way around the Earth.

Gosh, all the way around the world? But sadly, on the 2nd of July, Amelia and Fred went missing.

They tried to make the flight on their trip from New Guinea to Howland Island in the Pacific, but because the weather was so bad with cloud and lots of rain showers, the island they were hoping to land on, Howland Island, was extremely small and hard to see.

Due to the poor weather and fuel, Amelia and Fred never made it to Howland Island.

A lighthouse was built on Howland Island in her memory.

Wow, she had a really, really busy life, didn't she? Now, we're going to look at some pictures now while I read you the story of her life again.

So get comfy, I'm going to read it again while we look at pictures, okay? So Amelia was born in Kansas in the United States of America, so here we've got the United States.

She was born in Kansas on the 24th of July, 1897.

She lived with her father, mother, and younger sister Grace.

She had her first flying lesson when she was 23 years old, and in July, 1921, she bought her first plane.

It was bright yellow, and she named it the Canary.

In May, 1923, she got her first pilot's licence.

She was only the 16th woman in the world to receive one.

In May, 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific.

The Atlantic, sorry, the Atlantic.

Although this map here makes it look really small, she flew 2,000 miles, which took her 15 hours to fly across the Atlantic.

On May, 1937, Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan, the navigator helps her know where she is, they left Oakland in the United States.

You can see here where the finger's pointing.

They began their biggest adventure to fly all the way around the world.

But sadly, Amelia and Fred went missing on the 2nd of July, 1937.

They tried to make the next flight of their trip from New Guinea to Howland Island on the Pacific.

The island, however, the weather was so bad, with cloud and showers of rain, and the island they were hoping to land on was extremely small, you can see it here, so small.

But due to poor weather and low fuel, Amelia and Fred never made it to Howland Island.

But a lighthouse was built on the island in her memory.

So here you can see the first picture is what it looked like in 1939 when it was first built, but sadly it was damaged during World War II, and you can see the picture in the middle there.

But then the picture on the other side, on the right, is a picture of what it looks like today.

That picture was taken around 10 years ago, but I'm sure it looks very similar to that now.

So now we are going to make a map of the story of her life.

So I'm going to show you how to set up your paper.

So you will need a piece of paper and your pencil to get started.

Okay, year ones, I'm going to show you how to make your story map so that we can draw Amelia Earhart's life.

So if you don't have your piece of paper ready so you can do this with me, go and get it now.

So first, we're going to turn our sheet so that we've got the long sides either side and the short part at the top.

We're going to fold it in half so the corners line up and then use our hand to press down to create a fold so we've got two parts, okay? Then, we're going to fold the sheet of paper up so that we have got another fold like so, so fold from the bottom up to the top like this.

And then we're going to fold again, from the bottom up to the top and press down like so, okay? That will give us eight boxes to draw on our story map, like so, okay? Okay, so in box one, we are going to do my one to show box number one.

So Amelia was born in Kansas in the United States of America.

You're going to watch me do it first and then you're going to pause the video and do your story box.

It's Kansas, USA, so I'm going to draw a little cake to show when her birthday was.

So Miss Harris is not the best artist, but I'm going to try my best.

She was born on the 24th of July in 1897, okay? Now she lived in a house with her father, her mother, and her sister Grace, so I'm going to draw a little house there.

So she lived with her father, father, going to label them, it's really important that we label our story map, her mother, and her sister, Grace.

Okay, if you would like to pause the video, you can have a go at drawing that box now.

So box number two.

She had her first flying lesson when she was 23 years old.

She bought her first plane in 1921, and it was named the Canary, because it was bright yellow.

So I'm going to draw Amelia at the top.

So she had her first lesson, just going to draw a little stick person, when she was 23 years old.

Going to draw a little plane.

And then she bought her first aeroplane and named it the Canary.

If you want to draw at the same time as me, you can if you want to, but I'm going to give you time to pause the video.

So she named her first plane the Canary.

If you would like to pause the video, you can have a go at drawing that now.

So in May, number three, in May, 1923, she got her pilot's licence, which is what they used to show that.

So when people drive, they have a driving licence, so they have a pilot's licence, too.

She was only the 16th woman in the world to get this pilot's licence.

If you would like to pause the video, you can draw box number three.

So number four, in May, 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, so she was the first woman to fly, and I'm going to draw a tiny little aeroplane, to fly across the Atlantic.

You can pause the video and do box number four.

Box number five.

On the 20th of May, 1937, so I'm going to write the date, the 20th of May, 1937, Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan left Oakland and began her biggest adventure to fly around to world.

So I'm going to draw a picture of Amelia and I'm going to draw Fred.

Amelia and Fred.

So they left Oakland in the USA and began her biggest adventure to fly all the way around the world.

They're going to start in Oakland, on my Earth, whoop, and she wants to go all the way around the Earth.

Just going to draw a little arrow to show she's going all the way around the world.

If you would like to pause the video, you can have a go at box number five.

But sadly, she went missing with Fred on the 2nd of July, 1937.

Sorry, box number six, on the 2nd of July, 1937, they went missing as they tried to make the next flight of their trip from New Guinea to Howland Island, so they went from New Guinea all the way to Howland Island, and they got lost.

If you want to pause the video, you can draw box number six.

So number seven, the weather was so bad with cloud and rain that the island they were hoping to land on was extremely small, and due to the poor weather and low fuel, Amelia and Fred never made it to the island.

So with lots of cloud and bad weather and they had no fool, so I'm going to draw a picture of a fuel gauge here, this is what people have in cars.

So E is for empty, F is for full, so it shows that it's empty.

They had no fuel, they never made it to the island.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

And lastly, a lighthouse was built in their memory of the treacherous journey that they made around the world.

And there's a little light at the top, up here, usually, on a lighthouse.

So that is the story of Amelia Earhart.

Pause the video and do box number eight.

Well done.

So now we've mapped the story of her life, imagine that Amelia was sitting right in front of you.

What would you like to ask her? I'd like you to take ten seconds to think what you would like to ask her.

You can use these little aeroplanes with the first word on there, the question word, so who, when, why, how, could, if, what, to start your question.

My question might be, how did you feel when you were the first woman to go on a solo flight? What would you ask her? You have worked so hard today, year one, I am so impressed.

I'd now like you to show me a picture of your work.

I'd love to see your story map of Amelia Earhart's life.

Can you ask your parent or carer to send me a picture on Twitter? I've loved seeing them so far.

You can use the hashtag ONAYear1 and make sure you use the tag, make sure you write, "I give permission," so that I can use your work in my video next time.

But make sure to include your first name so that I can write your name under the picture.

Well done, year one, and I look forward to seeing you next time, bye.