Category: History – Nineteenth Century
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Life in the Trenches {World War I}
Life in the trenches was like nothing the soldiers had ever experienced before. ‘Digging in’ as it was called was a fairly new phenomenon. But living in the mud and squalor surrounded by giant cat-sized mice become wearisome very quickly. The young men had signed up to fight for their country and believed that excitement […]
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Siege of Liege Activities {World War I}
World War One is complicated and convoluted, and (IMHO) should never (ever) have happened. Learning about it is like watching a line of dominoes falling over and being completely unable to prevent what happens next. I have had to teach myself, over and over, to fully understand what happened to create the breeding ground for […]
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How to Make a First World War Map
Making this First World War map was trickier than any of my other map making endeavours. Because I am pretty relaxed about how any of my maps end up looking, I free handed it. This is not for the faint hearted, especially when you have teenagers looking over your shoulder pointing out what you’ve missed/forgotten […]
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Edwardian Unit Study Presentation
We have just finished a five month long study on the early nineteen hundreds. We have learnt such a lot, from reading books published at this time, to science studies on flight and ships, to the great Antarctic explorers of this era. The girls have worked hard to understand the suffragette movement and the sinking […]
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David Livingstone {1870-1880}
The children learnt all about David Livingstone, a Victorian doctor who traveled to Africa as a missionary. We read the following book on his life and watched the Victorian Pharmacy, an excellent dvd on medicines available during the Victorian times: But most of our work was based on an extensive David Livingstone learning pack which I […]
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Charles Darwin {1860-1870}
The nineteenth century was a fascinating time for scientific theory and new discoveries, from Russian, Dmitri Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, (which arranged all the known elements according to their atomic weight), to Louis Pasteur’s discovery that microscopic organisms caused disease, exciting progress was being made in all areas of science. Perhaps the most well known, not to mention […]
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Florence Nightingale {1850-1860}
The 1850s were an interesting time with, firstly, the start of both the Crimean war between Russia and her ally Turkey and allies Britain and France and the second Opium war (between Britain and China). Secondly, there was the publication of well known novels such as Moby Dick and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Thirdly, the Great Exhibition, […]
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Edgar Degas {Impressionist}
For her project last term Lillie learnt all about the Impressionist painters. She studied one artist for two weeks. The latest has been Edgar Degas, which was very nearly a disaster! But Lillie came up trumps and I think we both agreed that this was one of her best studies 🙂 Edgar Degas: General Resources […]
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Charles Dickens {Victorian Unit}
This week our focus was on Charles Dickens and the Victorian poor. Oh my, I had fun this week! The children not so much, but I took huge delight in threatening to starve my children with a Poor Law diet….in fact, I ‘made’ them be poor Victorians for a day. Yes, a day. The fuss […]
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Victorian Working Class
I wanted the girls to experience the life of a Victorian Working Class. This was a small social experiment the children and I carried out over one school day. We will be doing something similar when we come to world wars and I thought it might be fun to have experienced the Poor Law Food […]