Lesson video

Hello, how are you doing today? That's good.

Are you excited for today's explorer lesson? Me too.

So today we are learning about a female explorer called Gertrude Bell.

She was best known for her travels to the Middle East, and she helped lots of countries communicate with each other after World War I.

Now, are you sitting comfortably? Good.

Now, I'm going to be telling you all about her life today.

So first, let's just recap what a historian is, because that's what we are going to be today.

A historian is a person who.

Can you remember what those actions are? What they're for? So a historian is, a person who studies and writes about the past.

So that's what we are going to be today, because we're going to be doing some writing, some drawing, about something that's happened in the past.

We are going to be looking at where the Middle East is, an introduction to Gertrude Bell's life, listen the story of her life, look at her life, and then we're going to draw her life.

If you've been doing these lessons so far, you'll know exactly how this lesson is going to go.

You would need an exercise book or sheet of paper.

No.

You would need sheet of paper.

That's right.

Because we're going to fold it into nine boxes.

You would need a pencil and a teddy bear that you can cuddle with, and listen to the story of Gertrude Bell's life.

We're going to do now some star words which are the important words that we are going to be using this lesson.

So it's important that we practise how to say them to make sure we can be successful this lesson.

So it's going to be my turn, then your turn.

Ready? Star words, star words, star words.

Your turn.

Make sure you do the actions Explorer.

Explorer.

Your turn.

Expedition.

Your turn.

Expedition.

We're going on an expedition.

Can you go like this? history.

history is something that's happened in the past.

Something really important.

It's made history.

Middle East.

The Middle East is a group of countries.

We are going to look at that in a moment.

Archaeologist.

An archaeologist is someone who digs up parts of history, lots of remains.

So, Gertrude Bell.

This is a picture of her.

She was best known for her travels to the Middle East.

Now, today, there are going to be lots of photos of Gertrude Bell, that were taken by her and how her team.

They are on a website called the Newcastle University.

And they've got something called the Gertrude Bell Archives.

Just like when we looked at Shackleton, where we had lots of pictures of Shackleton, there are loads of pictures of Gertrude Bell and her expeditions on that.

So if you would like to look at real photos, more photos than I'm going to show you today you can go to their website and you'll see at the end, how you can find them.

Okay.

So, can you remember the seven continents? Good.

So we have got North America South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica.

Now there have been lots of discussions about the Middle East and whether some countries should be included in what we call the Middle East, but for the purpose of today's lesson, because we're in year one, we are going to assume that from this map that these countries are in the Middle East.

We're going to be learning about Gertrude Bell and we will include some of these countries that she visits.

Now, during Gertrude Bell's life, there was a time which was really historic.

It's important for us to understand how huge this event was because she lived through it and helped lots of other countries through it too.

It was called World War I.

Lots of countries were involved including Britain, where we live and over 16 million people across the world were killed in this war.

And we were bred puppies to remember those who fought and lost their lives in the war.

So it's important to remember that Gertrude Bell lived through this historic event.

Okay? So I'm going to tell you about her life, and I'm going to tell you her biography, which tells true facts and information about someone's life.

So someone else has written it, and that's me.

I've written about her life.

So are you sitting comfortably? Good.

So I'm going to tell you the story three times.

The first time, I'm just going to tell you.

The second time, we are going to look at some pictures.

The third time we are going to draw it.

Are you ready? Okay.

So let me get ready, Gertrude Bell was an English Explorer who was born in 1868.

Her family was rich, which allowed her to travel all over the world.

She studied history at university.

When she was 24 years old, she travelled to Persia, which is also known as Iran now, that's what the country is called now, where she studied and learned the language, Arabic.

You might be able to speak Arabic.

She was an Explorer interested in archaeology which means finding out about history by digging up historical remains.

She had to travel deep into the desert which was very dangerous.

She discovered lots of ancient churches in Syria.

Lots of important people in the Middle East liked Gertrude.

She went on lots of climbing holidays with her family and she climbed lots of Alps and mountains during her life.

And when she was climbing one particular mountain, a blizzard hit.

She spent more than 50 hours waiting for the blizzard to pass.

When war started in Europe, she helped the Middle East communicate with Britain.

She helped build stronger relationships between the countries.

On her travels, speaking to local tribes, she wore a long dress to protect herself from the sun, as well as a hat and some comfy shoes for walking.

In 1921, the King of Iraq made Gertrude the lead archaeologist for his country.

She discovered hundreds of treasures and later she opened a museum to show off her findings.

Sadly, one month later she was found dead in her home in Baghdad.

One room in the museum was named after her, in her memory.

Okay.

Let's look at some photos now.

Have a little wiggle, get comfy again.

I'm going to spend the next few minutes now telling you the story again.

So you can look at these pictures to help you.

Ready? Gertrude Bell was an English Explorer who was born in 1868.

Her family was rich, which allowed her to travel all over the world.

She studied history at university.

When she was 24 years old, she travelled to Persia, now known as Iran now, where she studied the language, Arabic.

She was an explorer interested in archaeology which means finding out about history by digging up historical remains.

She had to travel deep into the desert which was very dangerous.

She discovered lots of ancient churches in Syria and lots of important people in the Middle East liked Gertrude.

Gertrude went on climbing holidays with her family.

She climbed lots of Alps and mountains during her life, but, when she was travelling one particular mountain, she swung more than 50 hours on a rope, waiting for the blizzard to pass.

When war started in Europe, she helped the Middle East communicate with Britain.

She helped build stronger relationships between the countries.

You can see her here, sitting on a camel.

I've circled her in purple.

On her travels, speaking to local tribes, she wore a long dress to protect herself from the sun, as well as a hat and some comfy shoes for walking.

In 1921, the King of Iraq made Gertrude the lead archaeologist for his country.

She discovered hundreds of treasures and later she opened a museum to show off her findings.

Sadly, one month after the museum was opened, she was found dead in her home in Baghdad.

One room in the museum was named after her.

Okay.

Now we have read the story, twice.

We are going to map the story of her life.

So you are going to need a piece of paper and a pencil, so that you can draw the story.

Let's have a look.

So to make our story map, we are going to need nine boxes.

So first we are going to fold the sheet across and we're going to try and make these two sides roughly the same size, maybe crease the paper and then fold it over again, making a fold.

Once you open it up, you should have three columns.

Then you're going to turn it portrait and we're going to do the same thing again.

Folding inwards, making them roughly the same and then folding it again.

Once you open it, you should have nine boxes.

Now that we have got our nine boxes, let's start mapping the story of Gertrude Bell.

I'm going to read the first three bullets and draw them, and I just want you to sit nice and quietly watching and getting ready to draw the pictures when I say go.

Okay? So, Gertrude Bell, number one.

Gertrude Bell was an English Explorer who was born in 1868.

So I'm going to draw.

1868.

Her family was rich, which allowed her to travel all over the world.

So she was an English at.

This part, you could colour in red cause that's what the flag looks like.

And she was able to travel all over the world.

So am going to draw a picture of the world and an arrow that goes around it, to show that she could travel around the world.

She studied history at university, So draw a little building, the university, and that she studied history.

So lets draw a little book.

History on that.

History.

Okay.

That's number one.

Number two.

When she was 24 years old, she travelled to Persia now known as Iran, where she studied the language, Arabic.

So number two.

So she was 24 years old, and she travelled from England to Persia, also known now.

I'm going to put Iran in brackets because that's what we know.

But back then it was called Persia.

So let's draw a line to show she moved from England to Persia.

Let's draw a picture of Gertrude.

Remember we don't want super fantastic drawings, just some stick people do.

And she learnt how to speak, Arabic Great! Number three.

She was an explorer interested in archaeology, which means finding out about history by digging up historical remains.

So let's write that word archaeology.

That's a tricky word to write.

Arch.

E.

Ology.

Archaeology.

And lets draw a little spade to show that she likes to dig things up and that they are in the ground.

So where she can find things.

Now, your turn.

Pause the video and draw the first three boxes.

Off you go.

Okay.

Let's do boxes now four, five and six.

So Gertrude had to travel deep into the desert, which was very dangerous.

She discovered lots of ancient churches in Syria.

Lots of important people in the Middle East liked Gertrude.

So, number four.

She found lots of churches.

I'm just going to show a little bit I think.

I'll just draw some.

It wasn't a perfect church because she found the remains of the ancient churches as well.

And that was in Syria.

So let's draw a spade just to show.

Okay.

Then we show lots of important people liked this.

So let's draw some smiley faces to show that lots of people really liked Gertrude.

Okay.

Number five.

Gertrude went on a climbing holiday with her family.

She had climbed lots of Alps and mountains during her life, and when climbing Finsteron a blizzard hit.

She spent more than 50 hours on a rope, waiting for the blizzard to pass.

Wow.

So let start drawing number five.

So let's just draw some mountains to show the Alps that she climbed.

Most of them have snow on the top.

Let's draw some clouds for the blizzard and we can draw Gertrude on a rope.

She climbs them, so let's draw her holding into the rope.

She's sad because she's stuck and let's write help.

Blizzards are really strong.

And that she was there for more than 50 hours.

Lets draw a little clock and write 50 hours.

Wow.

She was really brave.

Number six, When war started in Europe, she helped the Middle East communicate with Britain.

She helped build stronger relationships between the countries.

So let's draw a picture over here, of a smiley face of someone in Britain.

Let's draw a smiley face of someone in the Middle East and let's draw Gertrude in the middle and she helped them communicate between each other.

Hey.

Now it's your turn to pause video and draw boxes four, five, and six.

Pause video.

Off you go.

Okay.

Let's do the last three boxes: seven, eight and nine.

So sit comfortably and watch me do the last three.

So number seven.

On her travels, speaking to local tribes, she wore a long dress to protect herself from the sun, as well as a hat and comfy shoes for walking.

So remember, Ms. House is not the best at drawing as you can probably tell.

So let's just draw a nice long hat.

She had a really big hat that covered her head from the sun and she wore a long dress, and comfy shoes.

Let's draw her shoes over here cause I don't have space for her feet.

There we go.

You're drawing, is going to be a lot better than mine.

I am sure of it, but I gave it my best shot.

Number eight.

In 1921, the King of Iraq made Gertrude the lead of archaeology for his country.

She discovered hundreds of treasures and later opened a museum to show off her findings.

So number eight.

In 1921, she was the lead.

She was the leader.

The leader She was the leader of archaeology for the country and she discovered lots of treasures.

And let's draw some walls, like we saw in the picture of just some ruins that she found.

Ruins refers to kind of old buildings.

They are ruined, but they act as really great treasures for us to understand how people lived a really long time ago.

And number nine.

Sadly, one month after the museum opened, she was found dead in her home in Baghdad.

One room in the museum was named after her.

So lets draw the museum, some windows.

So this was the Iran Museum.

And let's draw this word Gertrude on this window, so that we know that this room in here, is named after Gertrude now.

Okay.

Now it's your turn to do number seven, eight and nine.

Pause the video.

Have a go at those now.

Well done for doing your story map.

I'm really excited to see them.

Now, to end our lesson, I would like you to think back to our first session, where we discussed important people and their role in our lives.

Gertrude, made some findings through her archaeology and she helped lots of countries communicate during the war.

I want you to think about which category she would be in.

Did she change events in time? Did she improve people's lives? Did she change people's ideas? Did she have a long lasting impact? Or was she a really good example? I would like you to pause the video and have a think about where you think Gertrude would fit into these categories.

There's no right or wrong answer because it's your opinion, your thoughts? Pause video.

Have a go at that now.

Okay.

Now I think that she was a really good example because she was really really brave travelling into the deserts and often when she was on the mountains as well, with her climbing, that must've been really, really scary.

Especially when she was on the mountain and a blizzard hit.

50 hours is a very long time.

That's more than two days she spent, hanging on the rope, waiting for it to pass.

She's super brave.

You might have a different idea of which category she fits into, and that's okay.

Now, it'ss the end of the lesson which means, it's time to complete your end of lesson task to see how much learning has gone into your brain.

How much knowledge has stuck.

If you would like to show me your work, you can ask your parent or carer to share it on Twitter using the tag @Oaknational and the hashtag #ONAyear1 If you would like me to include your work in my lesson, you can ask them to write.

I give permission.

That means I don't need to ask if I can use it because they've already said that I can and I will try to include as many as I can.

Have a lovely rest of your day and I will see you next time.

Bye.