A fully resourced lesson on what happened to coal mines in Selby as part of a wider local area study.
Children will;
-know why coal mines were closed
- know the impact the closures had on local communities and Britain
- know that coal mines were closed down across the UK
- look at photos and sources and analyse them to understand how workers felt about the closures
- learn about the 1984 miners strike
- understand why the coal mines were closed and the falling use of coal as an energy source
- use sources to identify the adventages and disadventages of closing the coal mines
- analyse newspaper publications of the Selby superpit closing to identify why the mine was closed and the negative impacts it had on local workers
- use their knowledge to independently answer the question;
Do you think the closure of the coal mines in Selby and nationally was a positive or negative point in our history?
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