1. Can we be room detectives?
Key Stage 1: History
Learning Aims and Outcomes
Identify the rooms in a home from long ago
Describe, using appropriate vocabulary, features, furniture and household objects from homes long ago
Use clues to infer the use of an object
Talk about aspects of home life long ago
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2. Can YOU be a room detective?
Look carefully at the old photograph on the next slide - it was taken in 1887!
What FURNITURE can you see?
What OBJECTS can you see?
What ROOM do you think it is?

3. Look carefully at the old photograph What clues can you see?

4. FURNITURE - can you match the right word to the right number?
Cupboard
Cooker
Table
Fireplace 3 1 2 4

5. FURNITURE - can you match the right word to the right number?
Cupboard 3
Cooker 1
Fireplace 2
Table 4

6. OBJECTS - can you match the right word to the right number?
Sieves
Plates
Mixing Bowl 1 2 3

7. OBJECTS - can you match the right word to the right number?
Mixing Bowl 1
Sieves 2
Plates 3

8. It's a Victorian KITCHEN Did you work out what ROOM this is?
Click here to reveal the answer!
It's a Victorian
KITCHEN

9. Extension/Further Work

10. What was it like to live in the past?
How are KITCHENS today different from those in the past?
As a class write a list of 10 OBJECTS or pieces of FURNITURE you would find in your KITCHEN today

11. Your list might look something like this, but which of them would you also find in a Victorian kitchen?
1. Cooker (electric)
6. Knife, fork, spoon etc.
2. Fridge
7. Saucepan
3. Sink
8. Plate, bowl, cup etc.
4. Table
9. Kettle (electric)
5. Dishwasher
10. Microwave ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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12. So what did the Victorians do?
They used wood or coal powered stoves (cookers)
to cook their food
They kept their food cold in a larder –
a cold room on the north side of the house
They washed their dishes by hand
They used metal kettles that sat on top of a stove

13. So what did the Victorians do?
Or if they were rich
they had servants
So what did the Victorians do?

14. Find more teaching resources at: HistoricEngland.org.uk/Education
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