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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.
- Create questions about Victorian working conditions and the thoughts and feelings of a Victorian working child.
- Identify and describe the changes between periods of time using the census.
- Use other primary and secondary sources to verify the data in a census.
- Use a range of sources, including the census, to build an understanding of a period.
- Describe the changes in the 1921 census.
- Plan a local history enquiry using the census.
Lesson 6 involves an enquiry into your local school area. Prepare census extracts and other sources for this area beforehand. Refer to the ‘Before the lesson’ and ‘Teacher knowledge’ sections for preparation. This lesson can be taught at the end of the unit or extended into a wider project during any school term.
Suggested prior learning
Teacher video: What can the census tell us about local areas?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is the census?
Lesson 2: What can we learn about Victorian children from the census?
Lesson 3: What does the census suggest about the jobs available in the 1800s?
Lesson 4: Why did some women refuse to fill out the census in 1911?
Lesson 5: What changed in the 1921 Census?
Lesson 6: Who lived in our local area in the past?
Optional Remembrance lesson: How do people mark Remembrance?
Key skills
- Sequencing events on a
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Key knowledge
- To know that change
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Key vocabulary
decade
historical enquiry
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Pens ×30
- Censuses of the street being explored Use: Findmypast. ×1
- Current photograph of the street which is being researched ×8
- Past photograph of the street which is being researched ×8
The equipment below is optional
- A map of the street which is being researched Use: Google Street View
- An old map of the local area use: ‘Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales 1842–1952’ from the National Library of Scotland.*
- A modern Census map of the local area. Use: Census Maps ×8
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – History Y6: What can the census tell us about local areas?
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "What can the census tell us about…
Vocabulary display – History Y6: What can the census tell us about local areas?
A display version of the key vocabulary from the 'What can the census tell us about local areas?' unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Spoken language, Reading comprehension
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