Coronis and Boat Life
Key Stage 1
40 Minutes
Up to 20 children
Introduction
This workshop introduces children to the life that was lived by canal families in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through exploration of our canal boat Coronis the children learn about how canal families live and also get the chance to dress up as canal children.National Curriculum
History
- Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Learning Objectives
- To understand how some people lived in the past
- To learn that canal boats were used as homes by many canal families in the past.
- To understand how cooking, eating, sleeping and all other daily activities took place on the boat.
- To find out where these activities took place.
- To discover what was special & different about the canal way of life.