Objectives: To infer information from pictures of the past. Describe clothes worn a long time ago. Suggest what is different about clothes worn then and now.
National Curriculum: Describe some features of the past; describe what old photographs can tell about people in the past; recognise that people can be represented in different ways; ask and answer questions about people and life in the past;
Resources required: Pictures of Florence printed out from the Florence Nightingale museum or from the pack produced by the museum. Photographs of women today. Prepared comparison grid chart for use by the children, if they wish.
Teaching Activities: Introduction: What clothes are we wearing today? Look at the clothes we are wearing today; compile a list of words; write the words on cards/stick on labels; use the words to label the clothes e.g. skirt, dress, trousers, shoes … What are these items of clothing like? What words can we use to describe them? - colour; pattern; short; long …
Activities:
Each child is given a photograph of a woman today, placed on A3 paper; write words to identify the clothes she is wearing. Talk about outcomes, and words you could use to describe the items.
Introduce the comparison grid. Children record short descriptions of the clothes.
Each child does the same activity using a photograph of Florence Nightingale.
Children can look at the online pictures of Florence Nightingale and do the same activity. Share outcomes. What have you noticed? What is different? Is anything the same/similar?
Some children could use the notes to write a few sentences about what they have found out about the similarities and differences between the clothes.
Plenary: What are the main similarities and differences between the clothes worn by Florence Nightingale and clothes worn by women today?Did we notice any differences between the photograph we used and the online photograph?
