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ICT competences required by

Teacher

• use of data projector/interactive whiteboard
  
• use of the Internet to access the URLs
  
• very basic understanding of adding notes to PowerPoint
  

Child

• adding notes to PowerPoint

• the area has changed at different times in the past
  
• to use maps to help describe some of the characteristic features of the past
  

Resources

• ICT Suite/set of laptop computers
  
• Internet Connection
  
• http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/
  
• http://www.old-maps.com/
  
• http://www.multimap.com/
  
• Ready made PowerPoint Presentation - Witney maps.ppt
  
• Word document - Witney Maps.doc
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Preparatory work

Having looked through the Witney PowerPoint presentation and the types of questions you may wish to create a similar resource of your own area. If so visit the URL http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk on the home page under the heading Free and Fun type in the name of your locality. This will produce a modern map of your local area. You can centre on the area on which you wish to focus and zoom in and out. Right click your mouse and select Save Target As. Save the map with a suitable file name e.g. Witneynow. Having saved your map, click the old maps button to access the identical area in the 1880s, repeat the saving process, saving this time as Witneyold.
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The Lesson

Whole Class Teaching

Display the modern map on Slide 1.
Allow the pupils time to orient themselves with the map. Ask some questions to help pupils find easily identifiable landmarks. i.e. schools, church, manor house, cemetery, hospital etc.
Display Slide 2. Draw out from the pupils by identifying main roads that this is a map of the same town produced at an earlier period.

Main Activity

Pupils are now going to work in pairs at the computers on sections of the old and modern map in Word. The teacher should allocate a specific page to each group (from the Word document Witney Maps.doc - Maps A, B, C & D), each of which has the same section of the town from both the old and new maps.

Teacher displays slide 3 which contains questions for pupils to investigate. Explain to the pupils that they are to make notes in Word under their allocated map identifying/highlighting the differences they can see.

Q What buildings have appeared or disappeared?
The churches are probably in exactly the same place, there may be one or two new ones.
Municipal buildings will probably still exist. Some of the pubs and hotels will still exist. Some schools may still exist. If you are using local maps it may be fun to try and find your school. On the Witney map the railway has gone, as has the station and the goods station.

Q What features have disappeared?
This time focus the pupils' attention away from buildings. On the map of Witney there are:
Langel Common, The Drying Ground, The Medieval Fishpond etc.

Q How do you know that children were educated in those days?

Q What kind of business or industry can you see?

Q Are those types of business still in existence?
During the main activity the teacher will need to draw out the common differences between the two maps.

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Plenary

After a suitable amount of time draw the class back together. Display slides 4-7 containing different sections of the town, both old and new. Allow each group to come to the Interactive Whiteboard (or projector and whiteboard) and mark, on the old map, two or three important features which have changed in the section of the map which they have been studying.

Draw out the common features e.g. increased housing, loss of roads, railways, workhouses, decrease of farmland and open spaces.

Ask pupils to speculate on why certain features of the town have changed.

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Why use ICT

Easily accessible maps for your local area for every pupil.
The opportunity to manipulate sections of the map to highlight areas of significant historical change.
The resource, once prepared is available to use in the future.