History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 5/6)

Unit 12: How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?
Section 5: How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?

Objectives

Children should learn:

to recall information about the area in Victorian times
to organise their knowledge and use it to summarise their learning about the changes

Activities

Outcomes

Children:

Discuss with the children what they have learnt about their locality in Victorian times. Focus on the main changes that occurred in the locality over the period and the causes and effects of these changes. Use flow diagrams, other charts and a collection of pictures to illustrate what they discuss.

Identify categories, eg population, place of origin of inhabitants, occupations and sources of employment, buildings.

Ask the children to choose one of the categories and use a range of sources to find out about and summarise the changes that took place.

suggest the ways in which the locality changed in the Victorian period
summarise what they have found out about one way the local area has changed

Points to note

A speaker from a local history society could be invited to talk about the local area in the Victorian period.

Information can be presented in various ways, eg visually, in written form, as a class presentation (assembly), electronically.

Children's writing skills can be developed by using the activity as a means of revising the features of explanatory texts, including presentational devices like charts and diagrams. Children could be taught how to use these devices to support the making of a summary, and as notes for an oral presentation.

This activity could be linked to IT. Children could construct databases and present data in graph form, or as data files using multimedia programmes. They could use desktop publishing programmes to produce leaflets for other children, visitors to the school, or even for display in local museums.

Sections in this unit

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	1. Who lived here in 1841?
	2. Who lived and worked here in 1891? What has changed since 1841 and why?
	3. How did the arrival and expansion of the railways affect our area?
	4. What evidence of Victorian times remains in our area?
	5. How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?