Overview

• Time and chronology
• Change and continuity
• Cause and effect
• Using evidence
• Synthesis and communication
• Empathy

• Homes
• Schools
• Games and pastimes in the past
• Feasts and festivals in the past
• Buildings, sites or ruins in my locality
• My locality through the ages
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.

• Stories from the lives of people in the past
• Myths and legends
  A selection of stories should be explored in each year.

Study a selection from:

• Stone Age peoples
• Bronze Age peoples
• Early societies of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys
• Egyptians
• Greeks
• Romans
• Celts
• Early Christian Ireland
• Vikings
• Central and South American peoples
  e.g. Aztecs
• Asian peoples
  e.g. peoples of the Indus valley, Ch’in and Han empires of China
• African peoples
  e.g. Benin peoples
• North American peoples
  e.g. Native American peoples
• Australasian peoples
  e.g. Maori
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.

• Life in Norman Ireland
• Life in mediaeval towns and countryside in Ireland and Europe
• Life in the 18th century
• Life in the 19th century
• Language and culture in late 19th and early 20th-century Ireland
• Life during World War II
• Life in Ireland since the 1950s
  One strand unit should be selected from this strand during each year.

• The Renaissance
• The Reformation
• Traders, explorers and colonisers from Europe
• The Great Famine
• The Industrial Revolution
• Changing land ownership in 19th-century Ireland
• Changing roles of women in the 19th and 20th centuries
• World War I
• Modern Ireland
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.

• 16th and 17th-century Ireland
• Revolution and change in America, France and Ireland
• O’Connell and Catholic Emancipation
• 1916 and the foundation of the state
• Northern Ireland
• Ireland, Europe and the world, 1960 to the present
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.

Continuity and change over time

Possible units may include:

• Homes, housing and urban developments
• Nomadism
• Food and farming
• Clothes
• Transport
• Communications
• Energy and power
• Workshops and factories
• Schools and education
• Literature, art, crafts and culture
• Caring for the sick
• Barter, trade and money
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.