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Grade 4 History Term 4 Summary + Test

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About this resource

This 24-page resource covers the Term 4 topic Communication Through Time, combining clear summary notes, colourful visual explanations, timelines, key vocabulary and practice activities to make revision easier and more engaging.

Topics covered include:

  • The San and the oldest forms of human communication
  • The Postal System – from postal stones to stamps and post boxes
  • The Radio and Guglielmo Marconi
  • The Typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard
  • The Telegraph, Samuel Morse and Morse code
  • The Telephone and Alexander Graham Bell
  • The Camera, George Eastman and the Kodak camera
  • Television and the moon landing
  • Personal Computers, the Internet and Cell Phones
  • How communication has changed over time

The workbook also includes a Communication Through Time timeline, an important inventors reference page, comparisons between old and modern forms of communication, and a 30-mark source-based practice test with a full memorandum.

Format: Digital PDF

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