Florence Nightingale Theme and Worksheets (11 lessons)

This richly illustrated theme consists of 11 lessons -- 8 on Florence Nightingale and 1 each on Mary Seacole, Queen Victoria, and Clara Barton -- plus a set of worksheets.

An extension to this lesson is available covering 7 other people who lived at the same time as Florence Nightingale--Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Braille, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, Jean François Champollion, and Albert Einstein. In addition, a unified version of this theme is available that includes all 18 lessons plus worksheets.

Florence Nightingale was born in Italy, grew up in England, and traveled and studied in Germany. Information on the 3 countries can be found in separate “Passport to the World” files.

The theme is designed for cross-curricular teaching of all subjects--including literacy, reading, writing, spelling, role playing and drama, science, geography, history, art and technology, music, math, dance and movement, and Circle Time. It was written primarily for lower-grade primary students, but it can be adapted and enriched for higher grades.

Theme
1. Why was Florence Nightingale famous?
2. Background information on Florence Nightingale
3. What is being a nurse like?
4. Where is the Crimea?
5. Listening to Florence speaking
6. Hospitals of the past and present
7. Sequencing events in Florence Nightingale’s life
8. Role playing on Florence Nightingale
9. Mary Seacole, Jamaican nurse
10. Queen Victoria: Queen of England 1837-1901 and Empress of India 1876-1901
11. Clara Barton: American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross

Worksheets
Page 1. Title page and ToC
Page 2. Lesson 1 (advanced)
Page 3. Lesson 1 (less advanced)
Page 4. Florence Word and Spelling Card
Page 5. Vocabulary List
Page 6. First Lesson 2 (advanced)
Page 7. First Lesson 2 (less advanced)
Page 8. Second Lesson 2 (advanced)
Page 9. Second Lesson 2 (less advanced)
Page 10. Victoria, Third Lesson 2 (advanced)
Page 11. Victoria, Third Lesson 2 (less advanced)
Page 12. Student Account
Page 13. Mind Mapping
Page 14. Role Playing, Lesson 8
Page 15. Seacole, Lesson 9
Page 16. Victoria, Lesson 10 (advanced)
Page 17. Victoria, Lesson 10 (less advanced)
Page 18. Barton, Lesson 11