Talk about and describe artefacts from the

past and present.

Use everyday terms to describe passing of

time.

To begin to talk about differences between

my life and that of others from the past e.g.

day to day life.

HISTORY 1-Changes in living

memory.Here are your Learning Objectives today.

ChangeInventionNewHistoricalYears agoBefore/After ArtefactOld and older

When you read through your History slides today, try and use some of the words below.

ModernRecentSimilarDifferentDecadeCenturyPeriodGeneration

Vocabulary.

In this lesson we will think about how we keep ourselves and our house clean and then look at how things are different today compared with in the past. We will also learn about what has changed inside our homes.

With someone in your house talk through these questions.How do we make sure we keep are ourselves, clothes and houses clean and hygienic today?Why is this important in keeping us healthy and well?

What things do we use when we wash are clothes? Think about everything you need and use.

What do you use to keep your body and teeth clean? What things are inside your bathroom?

Are there dangers we need to look out for when clothes washing? What things should we never touch?

Is anything different from how we do things today and how things would have been done in the past? Listen to this story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkaq50gp5dE

Now we are going to look at what some

houses looked like in the past. How many

years old are these kitchens and bathrooms?

The VictoriansQueen Victoria became Queen in 1837 and reigned for over 60 years until 1901.

The Victorians were people who lived in the United Kingdom a

long time ago. They got their name because the Queen at that time was

called Victoria.

Victorian Times

Life in Victorian times was very different from now.

Victorian houses were heated with fires, so Victorian houses had chimneys. They didn’t have garages because there weren’t any cars. The very first car wasn’t built until towards the end of Victorian times

Most houses were very small, with two rooms downstairs and two rooms upstairs. They didn’t usually have gardens, but small yards.

Richer Victorians lived in houses much bigger houses. They had lots of rooms, sometimes even having rooms in the attic for servants. sleep in

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Comparing Houses

The Victorians (or their servants if they were rich) cooked on a range. This is also how water was heated, as there wasn’t hot water from a tap in Victorian homes. A range was powered by coal.

Many Victorian homes didn’t have a bathroom. The toilet would have been outside like the one shown. Poorer people had to share toilets with other houses. Most poorer families would have bath night once a week. Water would be heated on the range and put in a tin bath in front of the range in the kitchen.

Bathroom

For most of the Victorian times, houses didn’t have electricity. A few houses had some electricity towards the end of Victorian times, but this was very unusual and only for the richest. Candles were a main way of lighting houses, as were lamps that used paraffin or gas.

Living Room

Duvets weren’t used in Victorian times, beds were covered in lots of blankets. There was no central heating so lots of blankets were important. You can see in the picture of the Victorian bedroom that there are rugs on the floor instead of a carpet. These are called rag rugs and they were made from left-over scraps of material.

Bedroom

Inside Victorian Houses

Many people in Victorian times lived in homes without any of the modern

comforts we take for granted today.

People had to manage without central heating or hot water from the tap

– instead they had open fires and heated water on a big cooker called a

range.

Without vacuum cleaners or washing-machines, looking after the home was very hard work.Rich Victorian had water pumps in their kitchens and their rubbish was taken away down into underground sewers

All about Washing clothes now

and thenWashing day was a major event in the Victorian household. But only happened once a month . We wash clothes frequently today.Rich houses had a special room called a laundry, poor people used the kitchen or outside and use rain water or from an outside pump.Some poorer people had to make their own soap

The process of washing lasted for most of

the day and had to be started early in

order to get it all dried. It was still quite

usual to dry washing on hedges or even on

mown fields, or on clothes horses and lines

in the house in wet weather.

Finally when the clothes were dry they would be ironed. Flat irons were of various weights but did not keep their heat for long periods.

Irons need to be hot that is why you should always stay away from them!!How were the irons heated long ago? How are irons heated today?

With an adult, look at all the washing equipment in the pictures on the previous slide.Find out what they were called and how they were used.Now choose four of these artefacts that were usedlong ago and draw them, then draw what we use instead of them today.Write a sentence about how they are different or if they are the same.Decide whether you think washing clothes today iseasier than long ago. Have the changes improved things?

Your activity!