Year 2 Research (Teacher notes)
Pupil Activity Code: RXY4 – What is it?
Progression of skills in this pack:
1. Understand how a web-page displays information in different ways; text, images, videos and interactive elements.
2. Use a web-page to answer questions using keywords.
National Curriculum Content
Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.
1 hour +
Introduction
This activity pack introduces younger pupils to using a web-page to find information before they start googling everything. It helps pupils understand how a web-page can display information in different ways and how we can use them to learn and answer questions.
🛠 What do teachers and pupils need?
Pupils can use the activity pack (code above) which includes the introduction video below, the BBC school websites on the different topics and then the Word documents with the questions for each topic. Pupil could type the answers onto the Microsoft Word document or you could print the documents for pupils to write their answers by hand.
(We will continually add question sheets to the pupil activity pack about different topics)
👨🏫 Teacher Input
Watch the video below together and talk about the different features of an information web-page, including using the keywords from the question and using the built-in finder tool within browsers. Pupils can do all the questions for the historic figures, Geography sheets or just one if it links to current topic.
🚦 Differentiation
The activity sheets below include an additional challenge for more able pupils to write their own questions for the websites.
Florence Nightingale Task
Use the Florence Nightingale website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Crimean War
- The Lady with the Lamp
- So that nurses could one trained.
- Miss Smith
- Athena
Marie Curie Task
Use the Marie Curies website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Scientist
- Radioactivity
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Girls were not allowed to got to school in Poland
- Helped put X-ray machines in ambulances.
Guy Fawkes Task
Use the Guy Fawkes website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Guido
- Catholics might then have better lives
- 5th November 1605
- Francis Tresham
- 36
United Kingdom Task
Use the United Kingdom website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Cardiff
- An area of water surrounded by land.
- Northern hemisphere.
- Northern Ireland.
- Scotland
France Task
Use the France website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Vatican City.
- Paris.
- Mediterranean.
- Skiing
- Notre Dame
Antartica Task
Use the Antartica website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Minus 60 degrees.
- South Pole.
- Peninsula.
- Penguins.
- Research stations.
Queen Victoria Task
Use the Queen Victoria website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- 81 Years.
- Prince Albert.
- True.
- Christmas Trees.
- Victorian Age.
Remembrance Day Task
Use the Remembrance Day website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- November.
- Fighting.
- A poet in the war.
- 2 minutes.
- Where land has been moved.
Winston Churchill Task
Use the Winston Churchill Day website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- 1939.
- America, Russia and India
- 1945.
- Painting.
- Siren suit he wore in air raid.
Queen Elizabeth II Task
Use the Queen Elizabeth II website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- 6 February 1952
- 25 years old
- Balmoral Castle on 8 September 2022
- Head of state, the Church of England and the armed forces.
- Prince Philip
- 1948
Great Fire of London Task
Use the Great Fire of London website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Thomas Farriner
- The houses were made of wood and it was a windy day.
- It destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches
- To create a firebreak.
- Samuel Pepys
Mary Seacole Task
Use the Mary Seattle website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Kingston, Jamaica.
- Government
- The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- Cholera
- False (she used her own money)
Titanic Task
Use the Titanic website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- £ 1.5 million (£170 million today)
- Just for show
- Archimedes
- 2200
- £30 (£3300 today)
Ernest Shackleton Task
Use the Ernest Shackleton website to answer the questions on the Word document below and then see if you can write your own questions.
Answers:
- Endurance
- South
Roald Amundsen, 1911
Elephant Island
- They took a photographer with them
🏁 Activity Pack Plenary
As well discussing the answers to the question sheets above, you also ask pupils which part of the websites they found the answers on (video, text, image etc).
✅ Assessment
The answer sheets above can be used to capture evidence of pupil understanding.