This quiz addresses the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 History for children aged 5, 6 and 7 in years 1 and 2. Specifically this quiz is aimed at the section dealing with historical figures and understanding the lives and achievements of significant people in history.
Studying the lives and achievements of significant people in history is a key part of the KS1 history curriculum. Children must understand how the actions, developments and inventions of a variety of significant people, such as British engineers, have shaped and influenced our lives today.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Scientists and engineers
Many other cities around the world used the engineering used in Britain as a starting point for their own underground systems
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a great engineer and used his skills to solve lots of transport problems!
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He designed many bridges in this country and even one in Hungary
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He also developed a range of aircraft which were called 'moths'!
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This was the world's first electronic programmable computer and it was called Colossus
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Rolls Royce now sell some cars which cost hundreds of thousands of pounds!
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His ideas and engineering skills revolutionised railways and rail travel
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The bomb was used to attack German dams and even had a film made about it
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Dame Haslett wanted more women to be scientists and engineers and believed that electricity could change women's lives for the better
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Engineers have shaped the world we live in. Engineering is our way of using science to make the things that nature didn't give us
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