a person who learns about science and carries out investigations

a special kind of material found in nature, like gold or oxygen, that helps make up the world

a treatment that uses energy to help doctors fight the parts of the body that make people very sick

Marie Curie, the woman who lit up science

History

Al-Razi, the doctor who cared for everyone

Nicolas Copernicus, the man who moved the Earth

Ada Lovelace, the woman who imagined computers

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?

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Marie travelled from {{}} to study science in France.

Who did Marie Curie work with to discover the new elements?

Marie and Pierre studied special rocks that gave off mysterious energy.

Marie and Pierre discovered two new elements.

Starting with the earliest, sort these events into time order:

Which word means a place for scientific experiments?

Marie and Pierre discovered two new elements, polonium and ...

It uses special energy to help sick people get better.

It was discovered before Marie Curie was born.

Which statement is true about radiotherapy?

Which subjects did Ada Lovelace love when she was a little girl?

Charles Babbage invents the Number Machine.

Ada writes notes explaining the Number Machine.

Starting with the earliest, sort these events into time order.

Charles Babbage’s Number Machine worked a bit like a giant {{}} to solve number problems.

What special gift helped Ada imagine more than just number problems?

girls were not allowed to read books then

What challenge did Ada face as a woman who loved science?

Starter Quiz

Which subjects did Ada Lovelace love when she was a little girl?