Pupils can develop their understanding of the Victorians with this UKS2 What Was the Industrial Revolution? PowerPoint. It features a range of engaging teaching slides along with enquiry questions and those that encourage deeper thinking, with a key focus on a comparison of life before and after the Industrial Revolution.

This is the second lesson of a six-lesson block. There is an additional worksheet resource to support teaching that focuses on the key historical skill of similarity and difference.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.