LESSON PLAN

Class and year

group
Bigger picture
and lesson
context:

Lesson Aim/
question

YEAR 8

Date
13.02.15
&
time
Year 8 mixed gender, high ability group who
are currently studying the topic of Industrial
Britain.

To be able to suggest some ways Victorian

children in trouble with the law would have
been punished.

Duration

20 minutes

Lesson
objectives/
Outcomes

G+T
SEN
PP
Assessment
measures
Time/stage e.g.
starter/ activity
or plenary
Starter :
Source
analysis
(2 minutes)
Starter
review
2 minutes

Paired reading of Victorian children sources,

Linking words to definitions

Success
Criteria:

ALL students will be able to DESCRIBE how children were

punished in Victorian Britain.
MOST students will able to EXPLAIN whether Victorian
punishments were fair.
SOME students will be able to INVESTIGATE the
meanings of key words from this period.

National
Curriculum/Exa
m specification
links

N/AHigh ability students

Teacher observation, Focused questions,
possible self-assessment.
Student activity
Students are required to analyse the
picture source in front of them. Extension
questions are available.

Students are required to add any new

ideas/features while discussion on starter
takes place.

Behaviour for
learning
strategies
Key
Terminology

Victorian Britain

To be able to understand how children in Victorian Britain would be

punished for crimes.

Do we think that Victorian punishment for

children in trouble with the law was fair?
Links to
literacy,
numeracy, ICT,
SMSC?

Topic

Key stage three History national curriculum:

ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901:
Britain as the first industrial nation the impact on society
- Applying, if possible, the school behaviour policy
- Waiting for silence when talking to the class
- Not letting students talk over teacher
- Being firm and assertive
- Giving students the choice to behave
Context, Crime, Penal colony, Middle-class, Working-class, Hard
Labour, Crimes ,Punishment, Criminals, Theft

Teacher activity
Teacher ensures register, if needed is
taken.
Teacher aims to build up a rough
seating plan by talking to students.

Resources
Ppt
Worksheet

Worksheet
Teacher questions some of the
students, drawing out points from
sources.
Ppt

AFL and progress check

Teacher
exposition
3-5 minutes

Students, if called upon, participate in

classroom discussion.

Teacher provides context to lesson.

Informs students of why there was an
increase in crime during the 19th
century.- linking to the Industrial
revolution.
Victorian
source cards
Worksheets

Main activity
7minutes

In pairs, students are required to read

through the Victorian source cards and
answer the questions in their worksheet.
Higher ability students will begin to
consider if the punishments were fair by
todays standards.

Teacher goes around the class,

helping students and directing
discussion towards whether the
punishments were fair.
Questioning of students.
Ppt

Main activity
review/
plenary
(3-5 minutes)

Plenary targeting those

students who have not
contributed
Students participate in classroom
discussion.

Teacher directs classroom discussion

and tries to bring discussion towards
a conclusion in relation to the lesson
questions. What types of
punishments were used and do we
think they were fair?
Worksheet

Extension:
Word search
+ matching
definitions
worksheet
Writing full
sentences/let
ter
persuasive
writing
Homework

N/A

Justify your choices in activities and lesson

Next
steps?

N/A

Evaluation how did your lesson go?

planning
The starter looks to introduce the concept of Victorian
crime and punishment by analysing a historical
source.
As this is a short 20 minute lesson, the lesson is built
around the main activity, which aims to incorporate a
sense of empathy and understanding Victorian
children and punishment. This activity helps to
incorporate cooperation between students and build
on higher level skills such as analysing/forming
judgements.
Extension activities:
Word search + matching definition
This extension gives the opportunity for students to
independently investigate the definitions of key
words from the period by first finding them in the
word search and then linking them to their
definitions.
Writing a full sentence answer/letter
This activity gives the opportunity for students to
practice their literacy skills but writing a persuasive
letter to a Victorian policeman.
Worksheets are printed on cream paper
(recommendation of BDUK). Font and background
colour on ppt is comic/ cream background ( BDUK) SEN