UPDATED FOR 2025/6 SPEC: This lesson examines the purpose and conditions of the Whitechapel workhouse with a specific focus on introducing students to all three exam question types for the Whitechapel Historic Environment (Features/Usefulness/Follow Up).
The lesson resources include:
- 1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT)
- 1 x 27 slide main Power Point Lesson
The main power point lesson includes:
- Slide 1: Title slide
- Slide 2: Lesson aims and outcomes
- Slide 3-4: Learning Recap Quiz - 10 questions about housing and employment in Whitechapel with answers.
- Slide 5: Source Recap - What can students learn from a visual source about the standard of housing in Whitechapel?
- Slide 6-7: Source Starter - Based on two visual sources and one written source of the workhouse with prompt questions and answers in the notes section.
- Slide 8: A printable worksheet linked to the starter sources to help students practice source based skills.
- Slide 9-10: Task 1 - Printable worksheet to help students outline the basic facts about the Whitechapel workhouse.
- Slide 11-16: Task 2 - An optional source analysis activity (group work)
- Slide 7: Exam Focus - Describe one feature…
- Slide 18-22: Exam Focus - How useful source practice questions
- Slide 23: Exam focus - Follow Up question practice
- Slide 24: Follow up challenge questions
- Slide 25: Learning review activity
- Slide 26: Whitechapel workhouse fact sheet
- Slide 27: More from RA Resources
This lesson has been updated in line with the amended specification and exam questions ready for the 2025/6 examinations.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
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A really good lesson, with plenty to think about the usefulness of different historical sources. Very well presented too.
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