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This unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* What can the census tell us about local areas? and will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify the type of information the census gives about people.
- Use the census to make inferences about people from the past, providing supporting evidence for their statements.
- Make observations from the census and identify changes between periods of time.
- Identify the dangers of working in a textile mill.
- Create questions to identify the thoughts and feelings of a Victorian working child.
- Identify the key events of Mary’s life and interpret her thoughts and feelings.
- Extract information from the census to recreate the lives of people who lived in a household from the local area.
- Extract information from the census and decide whether a family was rich or poor.
- Describing change throughout time.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: What does the census tell us about the people living in our local area?
Lesson 2: What happened to Mary Bucktrout? (Part 1)
Lesson 3: What happened to Mary Bucktrout? (Part 2)
Lesson 4: How did Mary Bucktrout feel about the events in her life?
Lesson 5: Who lived in our local area? (Part 1)
Lesson 6: Who lived in our local area? (Part 2)
Key skills
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Key knowledge
- To know that change
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: What does the census tell us about our local area?
An overview of the core knowledge that Year 6 pupils will learn in the 'What does the census tell us…
Vocabulary display: History – What does the census tell us about our local area?
A display version of the vocabulary from the 'What does the census tell us about our local area?.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
- draft and write by:
- in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action’.