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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify the type of information the census gives about people.
- Use the census to make inferences about people from the past, providing supporting evidence for their statements.
- Make observations from the census and identify changes between periods of time.
- Identify the dangers of working in a textile mill.
- Create questions to identify the thoughts and feelings of a Victorian working child.
- Identify the key events of Mary’s life and interpret her thoughts and feelings.
- Extract information from the census to recreate the lives of people who lived in a household from the local area.
- Extract information from the census and decide whether a family was rich or poor.
- Describing change throughout time.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: What does the census tell us about the people living in our local area?
Lesson 2: What happened to Mary Bucktrout? (Part 1)
Lesson 3: What happened to Mary Bucktrout? (Part 2)
Lesson 4: How did Mary Bucktrout feel about the events in her life?
Lesson 5: Who lived in our local area? (Part 1)
Lesson 6: Who lived in our local area? (Part 2)
Key skills
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Key knowledge
- To know that change
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Archived Knowledge organiser: What does the census tell us about our local area?
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'What does the census tell us about…
Vocabulary display: History – What does the census tell us about our local area?
A display version of the vocabulary from the 'What does the census tell us about our local area?.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
- draft and write by:
- in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action’.