Free teacher web sites for History topic ‘Victorians’

A great place to start. There are animated movies to watch which provide a great stimulus. Click 'An introduction' to get started...

External link: BBC Victorians mini-site

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External link: Design a room

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Design a Tuidor, Victorian and modern room. A great activity.

External link: Design a room

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A real focus on the nature of the Victorian society. Was it cruel? Read evidence about children at work, examine pictures. A first class site.

External link: Exhibition

Includes Queen Victoria (dates and background), the Empire, Railways, Stephenson's Rocket, the Great Exhibition and the Crimean War. Useful for independent research in upper juniors.

External link: General information

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A great place to look at pictures of Queen Victoria and important people in her life. The images are average quality but it is worth spending some time on them. There are a couple of simple images of family trees as well.

External link: Images of Queen Victoria

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Plenty of good quality images here. Please use these images to prepare your lesson. This site is not to be used with children.

External link: Images related to Brunel

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Great clickable map with images and text suitable for most KS2 readers. A useful Victorian resource which demonstrates what you may see in a typical industrial revolution town.

External link: Interactive map of Black Country living museum

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This is a lovely website - you can click on an invention to find out more.

External link: Inventions

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Timeline, toy shops and the life of children are examined in this site.

External link: Life

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Super lesson plan and resources with the focus on Victorian artefacts.

External link: Life for Victorian Children

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This site links to many virtual Victorian exhibitions and games.

External link: Museum links

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Music, change and innovation and information on the Queen form part of this excellent site.

External link: Music, change, innovation and Queen Victoria

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A great opportunity to talk about the postal service and then try to spot a Victorian post box in the local area.

External link: NEM gallery - Post boxes

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This site provides a lesson and resources to support this unit.

External link: People who helped children

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Works well with the Britain from 1948 unit. Information from the website: Here you can find a range of things to do and make, inspired by the documents, pictures and objects in the Sainsbury Archive. * How much do you know about the history of food, shops and shopping? Test your knowledge with our six quizzes * Explore a store: look around inside a typical Sainsbury’s shop from 1909 and find out about the different things for sale * Harry's story: read and listen to the story of a day in the life of Harry Webb, a delivery boy working for Sainsbury's in 1912 * Old-fashioned packaging and other things to colour and make * Scrapbook of pictures from the archive to download

External link: Sainsburys history explorer activities

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Nothing makes them ooooo and ahhhh like a piece of secret history - one of the original sketches of Prince Albert's great exhibition. Wonderful.

External link: Sketch of crystal palace

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How much do you know about rail travel and Robert Stephenson? Great as a plenary.

External link: Stephens rocket quiz

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A super, but very specific activity. Ideal for upper Ks2. Suits Victorian technology, transport and inventions. Obviously suits the history of railways in the UK too.

External link: Stephenson's Rocket game

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These are great notes for teaches who wish to gen up on their subject knowledge.

External link: Teachers notes

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Recounts the story of Barnardo's founder T.J. Barnardo who worked to change the way poor children were treated.

External link: The story of Dr Barnardo

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Completely child-friendly little mini-site produced by a primary school in Co. Durham. Simple text and some well-chosen photos. A timeline, fun and games, school days and important people are just a few of the areas covered.

External link: The Victorians overview

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A toy shop

External link: Toys

Children love to search the census from 1901. It will provide basic details, such as age, place of birth and occupation for free, when you search for a particular name. You have the option of paying to discover more details! Perfect for family trees and family history at the end of the Victorian period.

External link: UK census online (1901)

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Scroll down the page to locate the Victorian images.

External link: Victorian artefacts (factories, crime and punishment and industry)

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A wonderful site which features information on ragged schools and Victorian education. Requires Macromedia Flash to run.

External link: Victorian education and schools

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A useful site for all teachers and children who are covering Victorians. Topics include Workhouses and the poor, Education and schools, Agriculture, Religion, Land units, Providing services and the towns today.

External link: Victorian times in Wales

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Find out about Victorian toys and other things

External link: Virtual Toys

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A great site which gives you plenty to talk about and show to the children.

External link: Woodland school mini-site

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A wonderful resource with plenty of primary evidence about Victorian workhouses.

External link: Workhouses

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