Free teacher web sites for History topic ‘Toys’

A great old/new toy sort as well as worksheets for the unit. Selection of activities for use in class.

External link: Bedford Bytes Toy activities

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A selection of games and exhibitions of old toys. Some great games to play in class involving toys from the past.

External link: Bethnal Green Toy Museum

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Example of some very ancient toys. Just type "toys" into the search box.

External link: British Museum Toy exhibition

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Lesson plans and textease activities to describe and sort old toys. This forms part of the popular embedding ICT CD s History section which was produced by the DfES.

External link: Describing and sorting toys

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Includes images of Victorian doll toys.

External link: Images of dolls from the Liverpool Museum

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Plenty of pictures of old toys for you to view. Victorian toys, army figures and more recent toys are displayed.

External link: Images of old toys from the Bowes museum

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A short presentation on old and new toys.

External link: Introductory presentation

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A selection of toys categorised into decades from 1900-2000. Ideal for copying and pasting to a whiteboard flipchart.

External link: MAPE toy gallery

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Lots of moving images of toys. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "moving toys". You will then be able to choose to view a video of your selected toy. A fabulous resource which can be used to teach forces, dance, history and DandT. An all time favourite!

External link: Moving toys

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Divided into the decades, there are plenty of clear colour photos of toys that you could use in your own lessons, perhaps on worksheets etc. They could be easily made into a matching-pairs game on the interactive whiteboard. Part of the ictopus picture gallery.

External link: Photos of 20th century toys

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Pictures of toys from the 20th century. Bring back all those happy memories, there are a selection of delightful pictures including doll's house furniture and radio controlled cars.

External link: Toy Museum

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Useful (if mixed) collection of freely available clipart images of toys past and present.

External link: Toys ClipArt

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This may be overkill, but why not show children who are interested in this topic toys that Egyptian or Roman children played with. Just type "toys" into the search box.

External link: Toys from ancient history

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Use the "themes" gallery and take a closer look at "childhood".

External link: Victorian Toys

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