Starter quiz
- John Brown was from ...
- England
- Wales
- Scotland ✓
- Ireland
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- Which country was Balmoral in?
- 'Scotland' ✓
- A piece of land with a large house on it is called an ...
- 'estate' ✓
- Why couldn’t Queen Victoria travel to Europe as planned in 1842?
- The flight was cancelled.
- She wasn’t well enough. ✓
- She had to go to work.
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- Queen Victoria lived in Buckingham ______ in London, England.
- Castle
- House
- Road
- Palace ✓
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- Put these events into the correct order.
- 1⇔Victoria and Albert were planning to go on holiday in Europe.
- 2⇔Victoria was very ill.
- 3⇔Victoria and Albert went on holiday to Scotland instead.
- 4⇔Victoria and Albert bought Balmoral estate.
- 5⇔Albert died.
Exit quiz
- Match the keyword to the correct definition.
- mines⇔deep holes dug in the ground to find precious materials like coal ✓
- chimney sweep⇔someone who sweeps the soot out of chimneys ✓
- Lots of poor Victorian children had to go to...
- school
- work ✓
- a holiday
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- Only Victorian children that lived in cities had to work.
- True
- False ✓
- Children worked in mines because they were...
- tall
- small ✓
- bored
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- Where does coal come from?
- 'mines' ✓
- Burning coal in fireplaces made the chimneys...
- clean
- sooty ✓
- empty
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Victorian childhood was very different to childhood today.
- Many Victorian children needed to work, both in towns and in the countryside.
- In a Victorian illustration, a child can be seen fainting in the fields due to the hard work.
- Children worked in factories and mines, and as chimney sweeps; these jobs were often very dangerous.
- Historical sources show many children died or were injured doing these dangerous jobs.
Common misconception
Pupils may believe that all Victorian children worked, or that no Victorian children had an education.
Children from wealthy families were educated at home or sent to schools that were paid for. Some children went to small local schools on some days of the week and worked on other days. Some of the least fortunate children did not go to school at all.
Keywords
Mines - mines are deep holes dug in the ground to find precious materials like coal or metal
Chimney sweep - someone who sweeps the soot out of chimneys is called a chimney sweep
Sources - sources are things from the past that historians look at to try and find out what life was like at that time
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