Charles Darwin and his impact on the Victorian Era

A whole half term History unit for KS2/Year 5 on Charles Darwin and his impact on the Victorian Era. Uses a collection of historical sources throughout.

Lesson 1: Understand how religion dictated Victorian society and behaviours. Analyse sources, Victorian books etc to understand religion, code of conduct and how this taught Victorians to think and behave.

Lesson 2: Learn about Charles Darwin and who he was, what he was known for through independent research

Lesson 3: Understand how Victorians first perceived Charles Darwin and what they thought to his theory. Children analyse a variety of historical sources to work out what the Victorians thought of him.

Lesson 4: Looks at the changing beliefs of Victorian people and how their opinions of Charles Darwin and his theories started to change. Children will analyse a variety of sources and then consider how Charles Darwin is considered in modern society.

Lesson 5: Final lesson bringing all their knowledge together to independently answer the key question to the topic;

Who was Charles Darwin and what impact did he have on the Victorian Era?

Additonal extras - collection of information from online on Charles Darwin and extra sessions on researching the Galapagos Islands and the journey of HMS Beagle

All fully resourced with sources, detailed PowerPoints, activites and SEN worksheets.