Loan box: Railways

In your loan box: ​
  • Source pack: secondary sources, including census data, maps and photos. ​
  • Powerpoint
  • Activity sheets

Links to NC - History & SMSC

Suitable for - KS2​ & KS3

Objects:
  • Photographs ​
  • Timetables ​
  • Newspapers ​
  • Maps (1640, 1802, 1829, 1889, 1901, ordnance surveys) ​
  • Census information ​
  • Lotto game ​
  • Timeline game ​
  • ‘Cause and consequence’ game
Activities:​
  1. Investigating Maps of Peterborough – identify & compare ​
  2. The Railways – matching photos and statements ​
  3. Photograph Investigation ​
  4. Peterborough Families – analysis of sources ​
  5. The Brickworks

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