Victorian Workhouse

This lesson investigates what it was like to live and work in a Victorian Workhouse.

This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including an inference starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with differentiated tasks, diamond 9 think pair share task, a consolidation explanation question and two plenaries.

Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.

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