Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 4 of 8 Rich or Poor? Pupils compare two Victorian paintings of two very different homes and ask what a house can tell you about a life. This enquiry led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: How did where you lived shape your life in Victorian Britain? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It!: evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 4 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 4 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 4 Unit Overview and Lesson 4 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source Two paintings of two homes: Frith’s Many Happy Returns of the Day (1856), a comfortable family birthday, and Fildes’ The Doctor (1891), a sick child in a labourer’s cottage. In the Journal, pupils compare two of Doré’s London engravings from 1872. In This Lesson Pupils will: Compare two sources showing rich and poor Victorian homes Describe the key differences between wealthy and poor housing Understand how overcrowding and dirty water spread disease, and how reform began Ask whether two pictures by different artists can be compared fairly Write a comparison of a rich and a poor Victorian childhood using both sources Historical Skills Developed Comparison Observation Inference Historical vocabulary Change and continuity Evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry led lessons, the full 62 page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker – for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy – phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 5 of 8 Victorian School Life Pupils investigate a Victorian classroom painting, real log-book entries and a school slate to find out what school was really like. This enquiry led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: What was it like to go to school in Victorian Britain? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It!: evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 5 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 5 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 5 Unit Overview and Lesson 5 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source Elizabeth Forbes’s painting School Is Out (1889), a Cornish village classroom at the end of the day, alongside genuine school log-book entries recording why children were absent. In the Journal, a real Victorian school slate an artefact that cannot speak, but still gives a lot away. In This Lesson Pupils will: Investigate a painting and a real object as historical evidence Learn why school was not for everyone, and how the 1870, 1880 and 1891 laws changed that Discover the rules of a Victorian classroom and the punishments for breaking them Consider what a painting and an artefact can and cannot tell us Write a diary entry for a day at a Victorian school Historical Skills Developed Observation Inference Artefact analysis Historical vocabulary Cause and consequence Evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry-led lessons, the full 62-page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker – for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy, phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 6 of 8 The Railways Pupils read an 1848 railway map and Frith’s crowded Paddington to find out how trains changed how Britain lived, worked and told the time. This enquiry-led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: How did the railways change Britain? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It!: evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 6 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 6 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 6 Unit Overview and Lesson 6 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source Bradshaw’s 1848 railway map, showing lines built and lines still being laid across a country mid-change. In the Journal, Frith’s The Railway Station (1862): Paddington under Brunel’s iron-and-glass roof, every class of Victorian on one platform — a scene Frith arranged, which is exactly the point. In This Lesson Pupils will: Read a historical map and a painting as evidence Learn about the first railways, Railway Mania and the people who built them Explain at least two ways railways changed everyday life, including standard time Consider whether a carefully arranged painting is more useful to historians, or less Answer the Big Question using the sources and the lesson Historical Skills Developed Map reading Observation Inference Historical vocabulary Change and continuity Evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry led lessons, the full 62-page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker – for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy – phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 7 of 8 The British Empire Pupils read a map and a cartoon made to celebrate empire — then ask who is missing from the picture, and what it cost them. This enquiry led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: How big was the British Empire, and at what cost? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It!: evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 7 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 7 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 7 Unit Overview and Lesson 7 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source Walter Crane’s Imperial Federation Map (1886), made to celebrate empire, and in the Journal Punch’s Rhodes Colossus cartoon (1892). Both are British views and the lesson asks whose voice is missing, with a Victorian critic of empire quoted alongside. In This Lesson Pupils will: Read a persuasive map and a political cartoon and explain their message Describe how large the British Empire became Understand that the Empire brought benefits to Britain and costs to the people it ruled Recognise that Victorians themselves disagreed about it Answer the Big Question giving more than one point of view Historical Skills Developed Reading persuasive sources Interpretation Historical vocabulary Multiple perspectives Historical judgement Evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry led lessons, the full 62-page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker – for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy – phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 8 of 8 Their Legacy Today The final lesson: pupils read a 1901 newspaper, recap the whole unit and decide whether the Victorians are still with us. This enquiry led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: Are the Victorians still part of our lives today? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It!: evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 8 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 8 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 8 Unit Overview and Lesson 8 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source A photograph of the Diamond Jubilee procession (1897) and, in the Journal, a newspaper front page reporting Victoria’s death in January 1901. Two public moments, and a final question: of every source type in the unit, which told you most? In This Lesson Pupils will: Read a newspaper front page as historical evidence Identify things from Victorian Britain that are still part of our lives Recap the whole unit’s timeline and vocabulary Weigh which type of source has been most useful for finding out about the past Answer the unit’s Big Question using evidence from at least three lessons Historical Skills Developed Synthesis Historical significance Historical vocabulary Chronology Historical judgement Extended evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry-led lessons, the full 62-page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker – for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy – phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 3 of 8 Victorian Child Workers Pupils read the recorded words of a real eight-year-old mine worker and investigate why Parliament was finally forced to act. This enquiry led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: What was it like to be a Victorian child worker? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It!: evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 3 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 3 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 3 Unit Overview and Lesson 3 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source The words of real children. On the slides, Sarah Gooder, aged eight, describing her day as a trapper in a coal mine (1842); in the Journal, Elizabeth Bentley, who started in a flax mill at six (1832). Both were recorded by Parliament to persuade it to change the law. In This Lesson Pupils will: Read genuine testimony from Victorian child workers and use it as evidence Understand why so many children worked instead of going to school Learn how the Factory and Mines Acts began to protect children Consider what testimony can tell us and what it cannot Write a diary entry as a Victorian child worker, using evidence from the source Historical Skills Developed Reading testimony Inference Empathy grounded in evidence Historical vocabulary Cause and consequence Evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry-led lessons, the full 62-page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker – for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy – phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 2 of 8 Who Was Queen Victoria? Pupils investigate a royal portrait and Victoria’s own diary to ask what a picture of a queen can and cannot tell us. This enquiry led lesson develops historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils think like historians by investigating a real historical source and asking: Who was Queen Victoria? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers: retrieval and chronology Big Question: historical enquiry Evidence Detectives: source analysis Discover: knowledge and vocabulary Prove It! : evidence-based application History Check: reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 2 PowerPoint (plus a PDF copy for quick viewing on any device) Historical Investigation activity booklet pages for Lesson 2 Teacher answer sheet for Lesson 2 Unit Overview and Lesson 2 plan, with effective questions to ask The Little Historians Framework The Source Sir George Hayter’s coronation portrait of 1838, painted to show a new queen as powerful and dignified and, in the Journal, Alexander Bassano’s posed studio photograph of 1882. Two portraits, forty-four years apart, both chosen by the sitter. In This Lesson Pupils will: Explain who Queen Victoria was, when she reigned and how she came to the throne aged 18 Read Victoria’s own diary entry from the morning she became queen Investigate a royal portrait and consider how a posed image shapes what we see Learn about her marriage, family, long reign and the growth of the Empire Write a fact file using evidence from the source and the lesson Historical Skills Developed Observation Inference Source analysis Historical vocabulary Chronology Evidence-based writing Looking for the Full Unit? Lesson 1 is FREE. The complete Victorian Unit contains all 8 enquiry led lessons, the full 62-page Historical Investigation Journal, a Knowledge Organiser, end-of-unit assessment with a supported version and mark schemes, teacher subject notes, a plan for every lesson, the Evidence Detective Question Bank and the Historian Competency Tracker for less than the cost of the lessons bought separately. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Viewing on a phone or tablet? Use the PDF copy, phone preview apps don’t display every PowerPoint design element. Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Eight complete lessons that teach children to think like historians, not just learn facts about the past. Every lesson follows the same six-stage framework Time Travellers, Big Question, Evidence Detectives, Discover, Prove It! and History Check and every lesson is built around an authentic primary source: a street photograph, a royal portrait, a child worker’s testimony, two paintings compared, a school slate, a railway map, a political cartoon and a newspaper. Pupils repeatedly ask what each source can tell us and what it can’t. What’s included 8 PowerPoint lessons, with PDF copies for quick viewing on any device. Viewing on a phone or tablet? Open the PDF copies — phone preview apps don’t show every design element in PowerPoint files. The PowerPoints are best opened in the PowerPoint app or on a computer. 62-page pupil Journal — one booklet for the whole unit, print once per pupil Knowledge Organiser End-of-unit assessment, supported version, and mark schemes Full teacher answer sheet Unit Planner with a one-page plan for every lesson and effective questions to ask Evidence Detective Question Bank Historian Competency Tracker The Little Historians Framework Lessons Who were the Victorians? Who was Queen Victoria? What was it like to be a Victorian child worker? How did where you lived shape your life? What was Victorian school like? How did the railways change Britain? How big was the British Empire, and at what cost? Are the Victorians still with us today? Designed to be taught in sequence. Each source builds the skills of the last. Chronology threads through every lesson, and the Empire is taught with more than one point of view. Try Lesson 1 free: search “Little Historians Victorians free lesson.” Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.

Little Historians: The Victorians Lesson 1 FREE Sample Lesson Who Were the Victorians? Try the first lesson from the Little Historians Victorian Unit completely free. This enquiry led lesson introduces pupils to Victorian Britain through historical investigation, chronology, source analysis and evidence-based thinking. Rather than simply learning facts, pupils begin to think like historians by investigating a real Victorian street photograph and asking: Who Were the Victorians? Every Little Historians lesson follows the same six-stage framework: Time Travellers – retrieval and chronology Big Question – historical enquiry Evidence Detectives – source analysis Discover – knowledge and vocabulary Prove It! – evidence-based application History Check – reflection and assessment What’s Included? Lesson 1 PowerPoint Historical Investigation activity booklet Source analysis activities Historical vocabulary activities Evidence Detective tasks Historical writing task Reflection and assessment activities In This Lesson Pupils will: Place the Victorian Era on a timeline Learn who Queen Victoria was Investigate a Victorian street photograph Explore how historians use evidence Consider what sources can and cannot tell us Answer the enquiry question: Who Were the Victorians? Historical Skills Developed Observation Inference Source analysis Historical vocabulary Chronology Evidence-based writing Historical judgement Looking for the Full Unit? The complete Victorian Unit contains 8 enquiry-led lessons, a Historical Investigation Journal, assessments, teacher guidance, progression tracking and much more. Lessons include: Who Were the Victorians? Who Was Queen Victoria? What Was It Like to Be a Victorian Child Worker? How Did Where You Lived Shape Your Life? What Was Victorian School Like? How Did the Railways Change Britain? How Big Was the British Empire, and at What Cost? Are the Victorians Still With Us Today? Teach children to think like historians through evidence, enquiry and historical investigation. Little Historians Explore the Past. Inspire the Future.