The third lesson in the history topic Technology Through Time focuses on communication, with this KS1 How Has Technology Changed How We Communicate? PowerPoint. It features a range of engaging teaching slides along with enquiry questions and those that encourage deeper thinking, with a key focus on how technology has changed the ways we communicate. It covers the ways grandparents and parents communicated in the past and how the advancement of technology has had a huge impact on how we communicate now. There is also the opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of all the communications technology children have now.

This is the third lesson of a six-lesson block. There is an additional worksheet resource to support teaching that focuses on the key historical skill of chronological understanding.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• Changes within living memory; where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life.

• The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievement; some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods.