History Detectives – discover your local history

Workshop title	History Detectives – discover your local history
Key stage	2
Delivered at	Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick
Duration	2 hours
Main focus	History, English
Workshop outline	Investigate original documents at Warwickshire County Record Office and tour the strongrooms where they are stored. A mixed collection of documents are available to be examined allowing for different learning styles and abilities. This includes: photographs birth and death registers from parish records historic maps newspaper articles and adverts Documents will allow you to discuss how your local area has developed and changed over time. The majority of the documents come from the Victorian period with a few from earlier periods. Pupils are given guidance on handling the documents and short exercises to help them learn to look and see the details in the source material. You are encouraged to bring your own class camera to record details from your favourite documents to use back in the classroom.
Key skills covered	Chronological understanding Drawing conclusions about life in the past from different sources of information. Interpretation – talk about the types of written and visual evidence that exists in archives to tell us about the past. Historic enquiry – comparing/contrasting information, identifying and analysing evidence. Questioning evidence Group working Empathy with people living in the past Comparison with conditions in the past to today
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