Learning objective
- To evaluate Lord Shaftesbury’s significance to children’s lives.
Success criteria
- I can explain what ‘historically significant’ means.
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National curriculum
History
The national curriculum for history
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Cross-curricular links
English
Reading comprehension
Pupils should
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Display the Presentation: Gimme five!
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Extended-mode explainer videos
How to extend your display to view the lesson page and preseantion mode simultaneously. Choose your operating system below to watch the video
Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the Activity: The changes and impact: support version in the Main event; could use sentence starters on slide 2 of the Presentation: Do children work today? to support their discussions in the Wrapping up.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should identify and rank the most important concerns regarding the working conditions for Victorian children; could put themselves in the position of a Victorian factory owner and explain how they would respond to the Factory Act; could consider how Lord Shaftesbury would assess and reform children’s lives today.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying the
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Vocabulary definitions
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bill
A proposal for a new law.
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Factory Acts
A series of laws passed by Victorian governments to improve the working conditions of children.
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In this unit
Assessment - History Y4: How have children's lives changed?
Lesson 1: What do sources tell us about how children's lives have changed?
Lesson 2: Why did Tudor children work and what was it like?
Lesson 3: What were children's jobs like in Victorian England?
Lesson 4: How did Lord Shaftesbury help to change the lives of children?
Lesson 5: How and why has children's leisure time changed?
Lesson 6: What were the diseases children caught and how were they treated?