Local area study - Selby - KS2 geography and history unit Year 5

A whole half term local area study on Selby. The unit looks at the industrial revolution, coal mining and land use with some local map work on grid references. Fully resourced.

Lesson 1: lloks at Selby during the Anglo-Saxon era, who they were, why they settled in Britain and more specifically Selby. Look at maps for what land use is like in Selby.

Lesson 2: Introduces the industrial revolution and what was happening at the time in Selby.

Lesson 3: Goes into detail on coal mining in Selby and Yorkshire. Looks specifically at the Selby Superpit.

Lesson 4: looks at what happened to coal mining nationally and in Selby. Listen to interviews with past coal miners and learn about the impact of coal mine closures on the local area.

Lesson 5: Geography focus on grid references looking at identifying features of local OS maps using either 4 or 6 figure grid references