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Upper Key Stage 2 Victorians
Local Streets

Explore your local area in order to understand changes since Victorian times and some of the wider context for Victorian poverty.

Block Outcomes

Session 1 The Cartographer's Challenge

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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

  • Use maps to locate areas and describe features studied.

Lesson Planning

Children compare modern and Victorian maps of the local area and record results.

Children Will:

  • Compare modern-day and Victorian maps and uncover main differences between the local landscape now and in Victorian times.
  • Use old and new maps to describe the landscape and changes within the local area.

Provided Resources

  • Teachers’ Notes – Preparing For This Block
  • Cartographer’s Challenge

You Will Need

Local maps of different dates

Weblinks

None needed for this session.

Session 2 The Historian Explains

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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

  • Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods.

Lesson Planning

Children compare the local area to old maps and images in order to understand changes since Victorian times.

Children will:

  • Use fieldwork techniques combined with looking at maps and photos to compare a street to one 150 years ago.
  • Investigate differences in the local area by visiting a particular street and looking at old photos.

You Will Need

Local maps and photos of different dates

Weblinks

None needed for this session.

Session 3 Population Explosion

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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.

Provided Resources

None for this session.

You Will Need

Maps of local city from different dates.

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