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.

Lessons 5 and 6 involve the use of the local census. It is important that the census extracts are prepared beforehand. Refer to the Before the lesson and Teacher knowledge sections to prepare for these lessons.