BUILD · Week 1 of 8

The Local History Timeline

Humanities · Migration & the Making of Modern Teesside · 1000 CE to Present

Progress SoW · Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · BUILD · Week 1

Enquiry: How can clues and centuries help us place local events in a defensible order, from 1000 CE to today?

Success looks like

I can place local events on a timeline, earliest on the left
I can turn a year into its century (1825 → 19th century)
I can use a clue to say WHEN something happened
I can say why my order makes sense

Aspire · GROW reach: challenge one placement on the timeline — and defend yours with a second clue.

Teacher Print Tools — Week 1

Arrival Task

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Order (Recall)

Which comes first: your birthday this year, or Christmas LAST year?

Christmas last year — it already happened.

2. Old or New (Recall)

Is a black-and-white photo usually older or newer than a colour one?

Usually older.

3. Teesside (Recall)

Name one big structure in Teesside.

E.g. the Transporter Bridge, the old blast furnace, Newport Bridge.

4. Time Words (Recall)

What does 'before' mean on a timeline?

Earlier — further left / further back in time.

1. Order (Recall)

Put in order: you were born · your parents were born · today.

Parents born → you born → today.

2. Decade (Recall)

How many years in a decade?

Ten.

3. Clue (Think)

A photo shows horses pulling carts, no cars. Old or new? Why?

Old — cars replaced working horses in towns.

4. Teesside (Recall)

Which came first: the Transporter Bridge (1911) or you?

The bridge — 1911.

1. Century (Recall)

Which century is 1850 in?

The 19th century.

2. Anachronism (Think)

A 'Victorian' painting shows a phone box. What's wrong?

Phone boxes came later — the detail can't belong to that time.

3. Clue (Think)

Give TWO clues that could date a street photograph.

E.g. vehicles, clothes, shop signs, street lights, road surface.

4. Interval (Apply)

The Transporter Bridge opened 1911. Roughly how many years ago?

About 115 years.

Starter

Starter: What's the Oldest Thing You Know?

Key Question: Everything around you arrived at a different time. What's the oldest thing in YOUR life — and how do you know?

🌉

Transporter Bridge

Still carrying people across the Tees

1911 · Middlesbrough

🏠

Your Street

Terraces, semis or new-builds?

Clue: the bricks & windows

📱

Your Phone

Probably the newest thing on you

Last few years

👵

A Family Story

Passed down before you were born

Living memory

Talk pairs: 30 seconds — oldest thing you can think of, and the CLUE that tells you it's old.

I Do

I Do: What Is Chronological Order?

Key Idea: Chronological order means putting events in the order they happened, earliest first. On our timeline the years only get BIGGER as you move right — bigger year, closer to today.

👀 Look: chronological order is the order things HAPPENED, not the order we find them.

📖 Key Definitions

Chronology — The order in which events happened in time.

Timeline — A line that shows events in chronological order.

Evidence — A clue that helps us decide when something happened.

Century — A hundred years. The 1800s are the 19th century: take the first two digits and add one.

🧠 Watch me think — years into centuries

My job: say which century each Teesside milestone sits in.

🛠️ Step 1 — look at the first two digits. Step 2 — add one. That is the century.

Guisborough Priory, 1119 → 11 + 1 = 12th century

Captain Cook born, 1728 → 17 + 1 = 18th century

Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1825 → 18 + 1 = 19th century

✅ Answer: 12th, 18th, 19th. Notice 1825 looks like “18” but it is the 19th century — that is the trap.

We Do

We Do: Sort the Clues — Old, Older, Oldest

How to play: Tap a Teesside clue, then tap the box it belongs in. Score: 0/8

Step 1: Tap an item · Step 2: Tap its group

📺 Redcar blast furnace demolished

⚽ Boro win the Carling Cup

🌉 Transporter Bridge opens

⚓ WW2 shipyards on the Tees

🛕 Guisborough Priory built

🏰 Vikings raid the North East

🚂 Stockton–Darlington Railway centenary

📱 Your first day at this school

🧓 Living Memory (someone remembers it)

📷 Photo Era (cameras existed)

🏺 Before Photos

I Do

I Do: Reading Date Clues

Key Idea: Every object carries clues to its age: materials, style, technology, and what it does NOT show.

📖 Clue Types

Technology — Cars, phones, gas lamps — tech dates a scene fast.

Style — Clothes and buildings change with fashion.

Absence — What's missing is a clue too — no cars can mean pre-1900s.

🧠 Watch me think

This photo of Middlesbrough has trams and gas lamps but no cars. Trams plus gas lamps plus no cars puts me around 1900 — I can defend that with three clues.

We Do

We Do: Match the Event → Its Era

How to play: Tap a card, then tap its correct partner. Score: 0/6

🚂 First passenger railway

⛏️ Ironstone found in the hills

🌉 Transporter Bridge opens

✈️ Tees shipyards bombed

🏭 ICI chemical boom

🔥 Blast furnace goes cold

1850 · Eston Hills

1940s · World War Two

2015 · Living memory

1825 · Stockton–Darlington

1950s–60s · Post-war

1911 · Edwardian era

Independent Work

Independent Work — Show What You Know

Instructions: Work at your level on the printed sheet. Move up a level when you are ready — this is your call to make.

Supported

Task: Cut-and-stick 6 Teesside events onto the timeline strip in order.

Steps: Use the era clue on each card · check with a partner · glue when sure.

Standard

Task: Order 8 events, write the clue that places each one, and give the century for any three.

Steps: Order first in pencil · one clue sentence per event · 'I know because…'

Stretch

Task: Order 8 events, justify each, spot the planted anachronism, and work out the years between two milestones.

Steps: Order + clue · find the event that cannot be real · explain why it breaks the timeline.

Lundy Loop

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Enquiry

Why: Article 12 — your view on this history counts, and it changes what we do next week.

🚪 SPACE

Timeline Corner is yours all term — add any local event you discover, any lesson.

📣 VOICE

Which Teesside event matters most to YOUR family's story? Say it or post it — one sentence.

👥 AUDIENCE

Your class timeline goes on the corridor wall where other classes read it.

⭐ INFLUENCE

Vote: which era should Week 2's detective sources come from? The winning era changes next week's lesson.

Exit Ticket

Instructions: Answer independently. No notes.

1.

Put these in order: railway opens · you were born · Transporter Bridge opens.

Railway (1825) → Bridge (1911) → you.

2.

What does chronological mean?

In time order, earliest first.

3.

Give one clue that a photo is old.

E.g. black-and-white, horses, gas lamps, old clothes.

1.

What is a decade and a century?

10 years; 100 years.

2.

Name two clue types that date a photo.

Technology, style/clothes, absence of modern things.

3.

Why do historians say 'about 1900' not just '1900'?

Clues narrow a date range — without a written date we stay honest about uncertainty.

1.

What is an anachronism?

A detail that can't belong to its claimed time.

2.

A source shows the Transporter Bridge AND wartime barrage balloons. Earliest possible decade?

1940s — bridge exists from 1911, balloons are WW2.

3.

Why is 'defensible' order better than 'correct' order?

We argue from clues; being able to defend the placing is the historical skill.

Knowledge Organiser (BUILD W1): The Local History Timeline (1000 CE to now)

Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · Enquiry: How can clues and centuries help us place local events in a defensible order, from 1000 CE to today?

Key Word	Definition
Chronology	The order events happened in time
Timeline	A line showing events in chronological order
Decade / Century	10 years / 100 years
Evidence	A clue used to place or date an event
Living memory	Time that people alive today remember
Anachronism	A detail that cannot belong to its claimed time

Key Facts

Stockton–Darlington Railway, 1825 — world's first steam passenger railway.
Ironstone found in the Eston Hills, 1850 — Middlesbrough boomed from ~40 farmers to an iron town.
Transporter Bridge opened 1911 and still runs.
Redcar blast furnace went cold in 2015 — inside living memory.

Arrival Task

1) Which comes first: your birthday this year, or Christmas LAST year?

2) Is a black-and-white photo usually older or newer than a colour one?

3) Name one big structure in Teesside.

4) What does 'before' mean on a timeline?

1) Put in order: you were born · your parents were born · today.

2) How many years in a decade?

3) A photo shows horses pulling carts, no cars. Old or new? Why?

4) Which came first: the Transporter Bridge (1911) or you?

1) Which century is 1850 in?

2) A 'Victorian' painting shows a phone box. What's wrong?

3) Give TWO clues that could date a street photograph.

4) The Transporter Bridge opened 1911. Roughly how many years ago?

Starter: What's the Oldest Thing You Know?

Key Question: Everything around you arrived at a different time. What's the oldest thing in YOUR life — and how do you know?

We Do 1: We Do: Sort the Clues — Old, Older, Oldest

Groups: 🧓 Living Memory (someone remembers it), 📷 Photo Era (cameras existed), 🏺 Before Photos. Sort: 📺 Redcar blast furnace demolished, ⚽ Boro win the Carling Cup, 🌉 Transporter Bridge opens, ⚓ WW2 shipyards on the Tees, 🛕 Guisborough Priory built, 🏰 Vikings raid the North East, 🚂 Stockton–Darlington Railway centenary, 📱 Your first day at this school

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Event → Its Era

Draw lines to match:

🚂 First passenger railway · ⛏️ Ironstone found in the hills · 🌉 Transporter Bridge opens · ✈️ Tees shipyards bombed · 🏭 ICI chemical boom · 🔥 Blast furnace goes cold

1850 · Eston Hills · 1940s · World War Two · 2015 · Living memory · 1825 · Stockton–Darlington · 1950s–60s · Post-war · 1911 · Edwardian era

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

first, next, then, after, before, oldest, newest, timeline, clue

Sentence Starters

"The oldest event is…" | "___ comes before ___ because…" | "My clue is…"

Scaffolding – Standard

Structure

Place: put the event on the line. Prove: "I know because…" one clue. Check: does anything around it disagree?

Useful phrases

"This must be after ___ because…" | "The technology shows…"

Scaffolding – Stretch

Challenge frames

"The strongest clue is ___ although ___" | "This cannot be earlier than ___ because ___" | "A more precise range would be ___ to ___"

Anachronism hunt

Test every detail: could it exist THEN? Materials · technology · language · style.

📘 Reference Zone — keep this beside your work

Our timeline runs 1000 CE → today. Earliest on the LEFT. The bigger the year, the closer to today.

🔢 The century rule: take the first two digits of the year and add one. So 1825 → 18 + 1 → the 19th century. The 1800s ARE the 19th century.

Our six local milestones

Event	Year	Century
🛕 Guisborough Priory built	1119	12th
⚓ Captain Cook born at Marton	1728	18th
🚂 Stockton & Darlington Railway opens	1825	19th
⛏️ Eston ironstone found — steel boom	1850	19th
🌉 Transporter Bridge opens	1911	20th
🔥 Redcar blast furnace goes cold	2015	21st

🛑 STUCK ON CENTURIES?

1825 starts with “18”, so it feels like the 18th century. It is not.

Count it out: the years 1–100 were the 1st century. 101–200 the 2nd. So the 1800s are the 19th hundred years. First two digits, add one.

❓ DO NOT KNOW THE DATE? YOU ARE NOT STUCK.

Historians rarely know a date by heart — they read a clue. Ask: is it in living memory? Is there a photo, and is it colour? Cars or horses? Steam or diesel?

A defensible range beats a wrong exact year: “about 1900” is a real answer.

🔤 Words I might need: chronology · timeline · century · evidence · clue · era · living memory · defensible

🔢 Independent Work – Supported (ORDER & PLACE)

Cut & Stick Timeline

1) Cut out the 6 event cards.

2) Read the era clue on each card.

3) Stick them on the timeline strip, earliest on the left.

4) Circle the OLDEST event. Underline the one in living memory.

🔢 Independent Work – Standard (ORDER & PROVE)

Order & Prove

1) Number the 8 events 1–8 (1 = earliest).

2) For each event write one clue: "I know because…"

3) Which event was hardest to place? Why?

🧮 Independent Work – Stretch (ORDER, PROVE & CALCULATE)

Order, Justify, Detect

1) Order all 8 events with a clue sentence for each.

2) One event on the sheet is an anachronism — it cannot be real. Name it and prove it.

3) Rewrite one vague date as a defensible range (e.g. "about 1900" → "1895–1905 because…").

4) 🧮 Years between: Railway 1825 → Transporter Bridge 1911 = ______ years. Priory 1119 → Railway 1825 = ______ years. Show your subtraction.

Exit Ticket – Supported

1) Put these in order: railway opens · you were born · Transporter Bridge opens.

2) What does chronological mean?

3) Give one clue that a photo is old.

Lundy Loop — this lesson

Space → Voice → Audience → Influence. The adult’s first job is Space: regulate before you educate.

Space	Timeline Corner is yours all term — add any local event you discover, any lesson.
Voice	Which Teesside event matters most to YOUR family's story? Say it or post it — one sentence.
Audience	Your class timeline goes on the corridor wall where other classes read it.
Influence	Vote: which era should Week 2's detective sources come from? The winning era changes next week's lesson.

Closing the loop: out loud, as a class, is enough here. Any inclusion counts — a nod, a word, a pointed finger. If a pupil wants theirs written down, an adult scribes it in their words. Pass is always allowed.

The Big Timeline — Feedback Sheet

Keep with your book / folder.

Pupil name:	Date:
WWW (What Went Well):
EBI (Even Better If):
Level worked at: Supported / Standard / Stretch	Evidence filed: Yes / Not yet
Authorship — what I chose or decided myself:
Support given — prepared / scribed / modelled / hand-over-hand:
Pupil response — my next step:

Exit Ticket – Standard

1) What is a decade and a century?

2) Name two clue types that date a photo.

3) Why do historians say 'about 1900' not just '1900'?

Exit Ticket – Stretch

1) What is an anachronism?

2) A source shows the Transporter Bridge AND wartime barrage balloons. Earliest possible decade?

3) Why is 'defensible' order better than 'correct' order?

The Local History Timeline

Success looks like

Teacher Print Tools — Week 1

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Order (Recall)

2. Old or New (Recall)

3. Teesside (Recall)

4. Time Words (Recall)

1. Order (Recall)

2. Decade (Recall)

3. Clue (Think)

4. Teesside (Recall)

1. Century (Recall)

2. Anachronism (Think)

3. Clue (Think)

4. Interval (Apply)

Starter: What's the Oldest Thing You Know?

Transporter Bridge

Your Street

Your Phone

A Family Story

I Do: What Is Chronological Order?

📖 Key Definitions

🧠 Watch me think — years into centuries

We Do: Sort the Clues — Old, Older, Oldest

I Do: Reading Date Clues

📖 Clue Types

🧠 Watch me think

We Do: Match the Event → Its Era

Independent Work — Show What You Know

Supported

Standard

Stretch

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Enquiry

🚪 SPACE

📣 VOICE

👥 AUDIENCE

⭐ INFLUENCE

Exit Ticket

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Knowledge Organiser (BUILD W1): The Local History Timeline (1000 CE to now)

Key Facts

Arrival Task

Starter: What's the Oldest Thing You Know?

We Do 1: We Do: Sort the Clues — Old, Older, Oldest

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Event → Its Era

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

Sentence Starters

Scaffolding – Standard

Structure

Useful phrases

Scaffolding – Stretch

Challenge frames

Anachronism hunt

📘 Reference Zone — keep this beside your work

Our six local milestones

🔢 Independent Work – Supported (ORDER & PLACE)

🔢 Independent Work – Standard (ORDER & PROVE)

🧮 Independent Work – Stretch (ORDER, PROVE & CALCULATE)

Exit Ticket – Supported

Lundy Loop — this lesson

The Big Timeline — Feedback Sheet

Exit Ticket – Standard

Exit Ticket – Stretch

🧑‍🏫 TA Focus

🎯 Cold Call