Title: Starter: Infant Mortality Keystage: Keystage 4 Type: Teaching Units & Topics: Britain 1750-1900, continuity and change Description: What can we tell about 19th Century life from a single gravestone in a cemetary? Who says the industrial Revolution is boring? There are lots of ways of making social history fascinating, and this imaginative starter is just one of them. Take a simple photograph of a gravestone. Use one in your local cemetary. This one tells a tale of infant mortality that is shocking to us today. That's a big change - and a good way into the topic. How would the parents have felt? How would any surviving children have felt? This is a perfect springboard for further investigation - either social history or local history, or both. Especially good way to increase the amount of local history in your KSt3 PoS, given the demands of the new Secondary Curriculum. A simple 'powerpoint' activity - one slide poses the question, a second slide prompts some of the answers. Especially good on your whiteboard. Price: Free Download: Download this free resource Related Items: Counting Heads: Britain and Ireland 1801-1871 - an ICT resource pack A resource pack containing a CD with all the census data for 1801-1871, a datahandling... Keystage 4   Beamish open air museum The North of England Open-Air Museum - shows life and work at about 100 years ago. Updated: 06 March 2008