
Toys Past and Present
Year 1 toys past and present worksheet: tick old or new, sort wood and plastic toys, wind-up or battery robots, and two teddy bears. Answers included.
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Year 1 toys past and present worksheet: tick old or new, sort wood and plastic toys, wind-up or battery robots, and two teddy bears. Answers included.

Year 1 toys past and present sort: place 12 toys such as a china doll and a games console into Past, Both and Present columns.

Year 1 toys worksheet: sort 12 toys such as a clockwork train, a china doll and a drone into old and new display cases. Answer key included.

Year 1 toys past and present starter: draw today's favourite toy, pick a question, then spot the old toy from a rocking horse, robot dog and wind-up robot.

Year 1 toys past and present comprehension: Leo's battery robot meets Grandad's tin wind-up train. Eight questions in three sections, with answers.

Year 1 history worksheet: join five old toys to pictures, then match six toys, from a clockwork tin train to a tablet game, to how they work. Answers included.

Year 1 history worksheet on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: fill gaps, tick true facts and sort four statements by nurse. Answer key included.

Year 1 history worksheet: put four picture cards of Florence Nightingale's life in order, from caring for a dog to her nursing school. Answers included.

Year 1 Nightingale and Seacole sort: pupils place 12 fact cards such as Lady with the Lamp and British Hotel under each nurse or both. Answers included.

Year 1 history cloze on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: 12 gaps, a word bank with Crimea, Jamaica and hotel, and an own sentence. Answers included.

Year 1 Florence Nightingale fact file: draw her with her lamp, record her nickname, job and hospital work, and say why she matters. Answer key included.

Year 1 Mary Seacole reading comprehension: her story from Jamaica to the British Hotel in Crimea, with nine questions and an answer key.

Year 1 Moon landing worksheet: label space pictures, answer questions on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong, and finish sentences about footprints. Answers included.

Year 1 Moon landing exit slip: pupils name the first person to walk on the Moon and circle a face. Three slips over two pages.

Year 1 Apollo 11 storyboard: three questions on Neil Armstrong, Saturn V and splashdown, then six panels from launch to safe return home.

Year 1 Neil Armstrong fact file: draw the astronaut, fill six fact boxes from his name to his famous words, and say why he is remembered. Key included.

Year 1 Moon landing worksheet: label an Apollo 11 astronaut and rocket with helmet, visor, spacesuit, gloves, boots and rocket. Answers included.

Year 1 Moon landing word search: find MOON, ROCKET, APOLLO, NEIL, BUZZ and three more words across and down a 10 by 10 grid. Answer key included.
History begins in Year 1 with the familiar and the concrete, and these Year 1 history worksheets reflect that. The collection covers three popular units: toys past and present, the lives of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, and the Moon landing — giving pupils their first experience of comparing then and now.
The worksheets align with the Key Stage 1 history programme of study in the England National Curriculum, which asks pupils to explore changes within living memory, significant events, and the lives of significant individuals. Activities focus on simple chronology, historical vocabulary such as old, new, before and after, and asking questions about the past.
Teachers typically use these to consolidate a taught unit: print the worksheet after a museum-loan session on old toys, or as a recap at the end of a significant-individuals topic. Downloads are free, and every sheet can be edited in Chalkie to match the exact people or period you teach.
Exploring changes within living memory by comparing toys from the past with toys today, using everyday historical vocabulary such as old, new and before.
View worksheetsLearning about significant individuals who contributed to national and international achievements, comparing the lives and impact of nurses Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.
View worksheetsFinding out about the 1969 Moon landing as a significant global event, sequencing key moments and asking simple questions about the past.
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