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Title: | Starter: Infant Mortality
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Keystage: | Keystage 5
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Type: | Teaching
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Units & Topics: | Britain 1750-1900, continuity and change
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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.
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Price: | Free
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Updated: 06 March 2008
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