Lesson Planning

Explore Victorian society in the 19th Century. Investigate how Queen Victoria affected British fashions.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To understand that the industrial revolution that began in the Georgian period had led to great changes in clothing manufacture by the Victorian period.
• To know that people, including Queen Victoria, wore things to show that they were in mourning.
• To design and make a brooch from clay, considering carefully what it represents.

Children will:

• Know what life was like in Britain at this time including the impact of the industrial revolution on clothing manufacture.
• Understand that what people wore could also show how they were feeling or what they were going through, like Queen Victoria wearing black.
• Design and make a brooch to show people how they are feeling, or to indicate that something big has happened to them.
• Be part of a discussion about what people still wear today that shows how they are feeling, or that something has happened to them, and consider why this might be important to them.