Population Explosion

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Victorians Local Streets

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Objectives

History

Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of Britain, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
Conduct a local history study of an aspect of history from a period beyond 1066 that is significant to the local area.
Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

Geography

Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom; geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time.

English

Identify the audience for and purpose of writing, selecting the appropriate form, and using other similar writing as models for their own.

Lesson Planning

Children summarise changes in their local area in an engaging format.

Children will:

Look closely at maps, finding evidence of population growth over time.
Understand how the changes that occurred both locally and across the country in the 19th Century had both positive and negative impacts.
Demonstrate understanding of changes within & after the Victorian period in newspaper/dialogue format.

Planning

Provided Resources

None for this session.

You Will Need

Maps of local city from different dates.

Weblinks

Information about poverty in Victorian times from hiddenlives.org