Free Year 2 History Lesson Plans for Teachers

The Great Fire of London, Explorers, and Transport Through History: three Year 2 history lessons covering the best-known Key Stage 1 units. Each slide deck tells the story with sources and images, then builds in chronology work, comparison questions and talk tasks.

These lessons align with the KS1 history programme of study in the England National Curriculum, which asks pupils to study events beyond living memory (the Great Fire of London of 1666 is the classic example), the lives of significant individuals such as Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, and changes within and beyond living memory, which the transport unit explores through how travel has changed.

Use them as complete Year 2 history lessons or as a starting point: in Chalkie you can edit any slide, add local history links, or regenerate activities in a different format. The curriculum thinking and structure are already in place, so the storytelling time is yours.