Poverty - History Keystage 2

National Curriculum
Local History Study - A study investigating how an aspect in the local area has changed over a long period of time, or how the locality was affected by a significant national or local event or development or by the work of a significant individual.

Schemes of Work
Below are links relevant Schemes of work.

Scheme of work: History Unit 13 - How life has changed since 1948.

Objectives
What aspects of the local area has changed?

Activities
Using the extracts discuss the effects of poverty on housing and homes, health and illness, employment and debt in the local area during before WWII.

Talk about what it means to do an enquiry.  Introduce the two main questions and the topic areas.  Explain that the enquiry is carefully structured in five stages.  They will work in groups to research a topic and will present their findings using a timeline.

Outcomes

Identify some aspects of the local area that have changed

Suggested tasks

Divide class into groups to look at one of the following themes

• housing and homes
• health and illness
• employment and debt

by identifying

• key characteristics
• key differences and similarities

Ask the group to report back to class and then as a class explore the reasons for change e.g., slum clearances, re-housing, World War Two, the National Health Service, the Welfare state.

Written work: Ask students to describe how the local area has changed in relation to housing and homes, health and illness, or employment and debt, and ask them to evaluate the difference it made to peoples lives.