How Have Children's Lives Changed?

Year 3

Unit Overview

Investigating the changes in children’s lives through time, children learn how children’s spare time, health and work have changed. They explore the most crucial change – work – in more detail, learning about a day in the life of a working child and the significance of Lord Shaftesbury and his impact.

Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions

What do sources tell us about how children's lives have changed? - To identify the continuity and changes to children's lives using a range of sources.
Why did Tudor children work and what was it like? - To investigate why Tudor children worked and what working conditions were like.
What were children's jobs in Victorian England? - To research and record the working conditions of Victorian children using reports and images.
How did Lord Shaftesbury help to change the lives of children? - To evaluate Lord Shaftesbury's significance to children's lives.
How and why has children's leisure time changed? - To explore the changes in children's leisure time using a range of sources.
What were the diseases children caught and how were they treated? - To investiagte the diseases children caught and their treatments in Tudor and Victorian periods.

❇ SUBSTANTIVE CONCEPTS

Civilisation (social and cultural)
Achievements and follies of mankind

❇ DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS

Change and continuity
Sources of evidence
Historical interpretations
Cause and consequence
Historical significance

❇ HISTORICAL VOCABULARY

childhood
continuity
change
chronological order
inference
observation
apprentice
chaffing wheat
hot seat
master
oath
primary source
secondary source
trapper
hurrier/hurrying
gin
textile mills
bird scarer
domestic servant
working conditions
historically significant
Factory Acts
Parliament
government
ragged schools
poverty
bill
reform
leisure time
compare
plague
smallpox
flu
cholera
treatments
vaccination

❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT

N/A

️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

Create an emotive poem or diary entry from the perspective of a Victorian child

🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

N/A

🏁 SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW

We are going to imagine we are curators and we have been invited to a museum to write some information for an exhibition about working Victorian children.

📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)

Street Child by Berlie Doherty

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