What can the census tell us about local areas?

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Unit overview: What can the census tell us about local areas?

Lessons

Lesson 1: What is the census?

  • To explore the purpose and creation of a census.

Lesson 2: What can we learn about Victorian children from the census?

  • To create questions about Victorian children using a range of sources.

Lesson 3: What does the census suggest about the jobs available in the 1800s?

  • To explore the jobs available in the past using the census.

Lesson 4: Why did some women refuse to fill out the census in 1911?

  • To make inferences about women’s lives in the 1900s using the census.

Lesson 5: What changed in the 1921 Census?

  • To investigate how the census changed by following the life of Evelyn Dove.

Lesson 6: Who lived in our local area in the past?

  • To conduct an enquiry about my local area using the census.

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Assessment – History: What can the census tell us about local areas?

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Vocabulary: History – Year 6 Census and local areas

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