History: Women's Rights
Political & Social Change in the early 1900s
How are women's lives today different from the early 1900s?
Concept: Legacy
Vocabulary
Rights
Suffrage
Campaigners
Laws
Inequality
Rights
Voting
Government
Timeline
Progressive Skills
Chronological Understanding
Place the time studied on a time line
Sequence several events or artefacts
Understand more complex terms, e.g. BC/AD
Use an increasing range of common words and phrases relating to the passing of time
Range & Depth of Historical Knowledge
Use evidence to find out about everyday lives of people in time studied
Compare with our life today
Identify reasons for and results of people's actions
Understand why people may have wanted to do something
Interpretations of History
Identify and give reasons for different ways in which the past is represented
Distinguish between different sources – compare different versions of the same story
Look at representations of the period – museum, cartoons etc
Historical Enquiry
Use a range of sources to find out about a period in history.
Observe small details – artefacts, pictures
Select and record information relevant to the study
Begin to use the library and internet for research by asking and answering questions.
Organisation & Communication
Communicate knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways – discussions, recounts, diaries, pictures, annotations and drama.
Begin to use historical vocabulary to describe periods studied.
Select relevant historical information .
Content Progression
Create a time-line depicting the major changes in women's political and social throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What was life like for women in Britain in the early 1900s? What changes did they want? How does this period compare to life today?
Find out about Amelia Scott from Tunbridge Wells, who fought for change politically and socially.
Learn about women's suffrage and the campaign for votes for women in Britain. Local History study about suffragettes in Goudhurst.
Find out about social change and laws that improved the lives of women in the first part of the 1900s..
Research key figures who helped improved life for the future generations of women, conducted independently using Chrome Books.
Use drama to depict life of women in the past in contrast to today.