Overview

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

• My family
• Homes
• My school
• 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
• Life during World War II
• Life in Ireland since the 1950s
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.

Possible units may include:

• Food and farming
• Clothes
• Homes and houses
• Transport
• Communications
• Shops and fairs
• Schools and education
• Caring for the sick
  Two strand units should be selected from this strand during each year.