Using the TimeMaps Interactive Map of World History will help you meet some or all of the following objectives:
- To give children a strong idea of when the period under study came in history – especially in relation to other major topics studied at Key Stage 2 history.
- To give them a clear idea about where in the world it occurred, especially in relation to the other major topics studied. Children can often struggle with this.
- To give children more experience of handling dates, and date-related concepts (BC/AD, century and so on); and therefore to strengthen their understanding of the whole concept of chronology.
- To give children an outline of the background historical information, with the key historical events, to the topics. This is an essential backdrop to the study of everyday life and famous personalities, about which they will gather from their other resources.
- To give children a broader idea of the wider world at the time of a particular period.
The first two objectives are vital to any understanding of a period under study, and the third is a historical skill which should be developed as a part of every scheme of work.
For a detailed mapping of Interactive Map of World History to the History National Curriculum, please see Appendix 1.
Geography Objectives
By definition, geography is never far away when using the TimeMaps Interactive Map of World History. Moreover, the notes for most topics include a geography section. In several (Ancient Egypt, The Tudors, The Victorians), there is no getting away from the geography!
Also, set out below, in section 4, are specific suggestions for using the Interactive Map of World History in the wider geographical study of different countries.
In general, using the Interactive Map of World History, pupils:
- will gain practice in dealing with maps at different scales (depending on the zoom levels they use at different times), including world, continental and country levels, as well as an increasing range of town plans.
- will be constantly exposed to the map of the world, to the location of different countries, above all Britain, within the world, and to the shapes of those countries.
- will have quick and easy access to the histories of all and any of the different countries they study (including countries in the news), in a map-based, geographical context.
- will clearly see the wider geographical context in which different countries are located.
- will learn that the shapes of countries change, and that these changes are due to a variety of historical reasons.
- will gain insight into such themes as the importance of water and irrigation to different countries and civilizations (e.g. Egypt, Iraq) – and that the effectiveness of these arrangements can be influenced by political and social (i.e. historical) forces.
Finally, specific modules deal with the growth of towns and cities, enhancing pupils’ understanding of settlements, and specific suggested activities ask pupils to examine their local community for particular historical features, which have an important bearing on the geographical make-up of the settlement.
Religious Education Objectives
To know about any religion at any level at all it is important to know something of its history. The TimeMaps Interactive Map of World History provides quick and easy access to the historical outlines of all the major world religions, together with a brief outline of their tenets.
The foundations of the modern world faiths appear in the following Key Maps:
- Judaism: 1500 BC: (Focus on Egypt/Israel)
- Hinduism: 1000 BC (focus on India)
- Buddhism: 500 BC (focus on India)
- Christianity: AD 1 (focus on Judea)
- Islam: AD 500 (focus on Arabia)
Confucianism (500 BC, China) and Sikhism (AD 1648, India) are also included.
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