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History

Victorian Britain (age 7-11)

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TEACHER REVIEW, PRIMARY CHOICE

Travel back in time with the BBC and take history teaching to a new dimension!

 

 

 

Key features:

  • Covers the following topics: When Were the Victorians?, Town Life, Transport, Leisure, Children at School, Children at Work, Girls' and Women's Lives, Empire
  • Offers a wealth of images, accounts, video, fiction and activities, giving children a picture of what life was like in Victorian Britain and allowing them to use and develop historical skills
  • A comprehensive teacher's book offers suggestions for further activities, cross-curricular links and guidance for teachers to help teach the topic.
  • Strong literacy links, including writing activities for every topic.
  • Whiteboard Active brings the best of the BBC to your interactive whiteboard. Its resources for history combine video, audio, pictures and texts with interactive activities and discussion points, enabling children to explore evidence, visit historical sites and read original texts - all without stepping outside the classroom.

 

Contents:

Unit 1: Introduction

  • Who and when were the Victorians
  • How did life change during Victorian times?
  • Victorians and the wider world

 

Unit 2: Town life

  • Why did towns grow so fast?
  • What was middle class life like?
  • What was life like for poorer people?
  • Sanitation
  • Workhouses

 

Unit 3: Transport

  • How did transport change over the century?
  • How did railways transform transport?
  • Brunel and Stephenson
  • Sea-going transport
  • Bicycles

 

Unit 4: Leisure

  • How did the middle class spend their leisure time
  • What did the less well off do in their leisure time?
  • Maypole dancing, street entertainment
  • A family day out to the seaside

 

Unit 5: Children at school

  • What kinds of schools were there for working class children?
  • Factory schools
  • Ragged schools
  • Church schools
  • What did the government provide?
  • Middle class children's schooling

 

Unit 6: Children at work

  • Which children worked in Victorian times?
  • Children in factories
  • What other work did children do?
  • Children underground
  • Working at home
  • Domestic servants

 

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