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This new unit for 2024/25 gives greater opportunities for the children to explore sources and includes new teaching resources designed to enrich their learning and deepen their understanding of the topic. The Archived unit: What does the census tell us about our local area? 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.
- Create questions about Victorian working conditions and the thoughts and feelings of a Victorian working child.
- Identify and describe the changes between periods of time using the census.
- Use other primary and secondary sources to verify the data in a census.
- Use a range of sources, including the census, to build an understanding of a period.
- Describe the changes in the 1921 census.
- Plan a local history enquiry using the census.
Lesson 6 involves an enquiry into your local school area. Prepare census extracts and other sources for this area beforehand. Refer to the ‘Before the lesson’ and ‘Teacher knowledge’ sections for preparation. This lesson can be taught at the end of the unit or extended into a wider project during any school term.
Suggested prior learning
Unit overview: What can the census tell us about local areas?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is the census?
Lesson 2: What can we learn about Victorian children from the census?
Lesson 3: What does the census suggest about the jobs available in the 1800s?
Lesson 4: Why did some women refuse to fill out the census in 1911?
Lesson 5: What changed in the 1921 Census?
Lesson 6: Who lived in our local area in the past?
Key skills
- Sequencing events on a
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Key knowledge
- To know that change
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Key vocabulary
decade
historical enquiry
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – History Y6: What can the census tell us about local areas?
Aimed at pupils, a double page document that gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'What can the census…
Vocabulary: History – Year 6 Census and local areas
Display versions of UKS2 key vocabulary and unit vocabulary from the 'What can the census tell us about local areas?'…
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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