Urbanisation LO Describe the growth of cities and

Urbanisation LO: Describe the growth of cities and explain why this happened. Key word. Urbanisation- an increase in the proportion of people living in urban (town/city) areas compared to rural (countryside) areas.

1600 s 1800 1700 Describe the trend/pattern 1900

Urbanisation Skill: Statistical Analysis KEY UNDERSTANDING: 1750 - 20% of people lived in towns or cities. By 1900 this had increased to 70% 1. What was the population of London in 1750? 2. In what year did the population exceed (go over) 1 million? 3. What was the population at the end of the Ind. Rev (1901)? 4. Describe the general trend (pattern) of the data 5. What period saw the fastest population growth? Challenge!: Write 2 -4 sentences explaining what information this source gives us. Give at least one specific example

So why did Urban: city Key Words: countryside people move to Rural: factor: makes you want to leave Push where you live Pull factor: attracts you to a new place the city? PUSH A better life? PULL Look at p. 66 -67 of Britain. Read PUSH FACTORS the thoughts of the Chapman family and sort their reasons for moving to the city into push and pull factors Challenge: What might be the consequences of rapid urban growth? PULL FACTORS

Why did Urbanisation occur during the Industrial Revolution? Urbanisation means… During the Industrial Revolution, cities like L____ grew at a fast pace. For example… (can you add a statistic from the graph? ). This was because… Challenge: What might be the consequences of rapid urban growth?

Urbanisation- Living conditions LO: Describe the living conditions in cities during the Industrial Revolution and explain why people lived like this STARTER: Why did urbanisation occur during the Industrial Revolution? Sentence starter: Urbanisation means… During the Industrial Revolution, cities like L____ grew at a fast pace. For example… (can you add a statistic from the graph? ). This was because…

PICTURE INTERPRETATION Find your group members by piecing together the puzzle of your picture In your group, discuss the following: • Describe what is happening in the photo • Who are the people? • What might be the negative consequences of living like this?

LO: What were the living conditions like in the cities? Video Clip: Manchester • Population in 1750: 1850: • Why did people migrate to towns? • What was used to power the factories? How did it get there? • What were the conditions like in the towns? MANCHESTER 1750 MANCHESTER 1850 MANCHESTER TODAY

LO: Describe the living conditions in the cities As you read the article, visualise what each paragraph is saying (yuck!) TASK: Draw a small picture in each box to help you remember this information GLOSSARY Influx- increase back-to-back housing Cesspits- a pit of sewerage Epidemic- outbreak of disease Typhoid, typhus, cholera- diseases spread by dirty water Sanitation- disposing of sewerage SKILL: Literacy activity

LO: What were the living conditions like in the cities? Video Clip: Manchester • Population in 1750: 1850: • Why did people migrate to towns? • What was used to power the factories? How did it get there? • What were the conditions like in the towns? MANCHESTER 1750 MANCHESTER 1850 MANCHESTER TODAY

Living Conditions- Sources LO: use historical sources to discuss the impact of living conditions in the cities Starter: use your pictogram sheet create a star diagram describing living conditions Eg. Dirty drinking water led to the spread of diseases like cholera Living conditions in the cities

What were the living conditions like in the cities? This short clip will allow you to see just how poor living conditions really were. Working class living conditions Results of these living conditions

Pick 3 quotes that you think highlight the WORST conditions in the city

Source A: A sketch of Silvester Court, Liverpool, 1843.

Source B A cross-section of back-to-back houses, Emily Place, Liverpool. ‘In Emily Place there are two rows of houses with a street 15 feet wide between them. The houses are built back-to-back. Each room in the house is about 3 feet wide and 5 feet long. ’

Source C ‘We saw drains and sewers emptying into a stream. Also in this stream had been thrown dead dogs and cats and other offensive articles. Downstream women filled buckets to use as drinking water, for cooking, washing and cleaning their clothes’ Source D ‘Few back streets are paved at all. Dungheaps are found in several parts of the streets, and sewage is seen running down the gutter in the middle of the street. ’ Source E ‘The homes of 3000 families were visited. In 773 of them the families slept 3 and 4 to a bed, in 209 families 4 and 5 slept in a bed and in 15 families 6 and 7 slept in a bed. In one cellar we found a mother and her two grown up daughters sleeping on a bed of straw in one corner and 3 sailors slept in the other corner’

Source F A sketch of the interior of a house in Chorley Court, Liverpool. G H ‘There is one outside privy (toilet) for a whole street. Filth builds up at the back of the privy and is often not removed for up to 6 months. Men from the council are sent round with a horse and cart and a couple of shovels to remove it. ’ ‘There are 39, 000 people living in 7860 cellars which were dark, damp, dirty and unventilated. In one cellar there was a large hole in the floor. This hole was above a sewer. The mother who lived there feared for her baby as rats came up in the night, sometimes up to 20 at a time. ’

What were the living conditions like in the cities? Read over the sources worksheet and produce an official report on living conditions based on what you find in the sources and what we have discussed in lesson today. Fast Finishers: Your report should also include a sketch of the housing conditions OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT REPORT ON LIVING CONDITIONS DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Inspector…………… Date 11/3/1842 Housing Toilets/ sanitary conditions Water supply Disease This repo is a rt so DET AIL i s nee ded !!

Peer marking • Spelling, punctuation and grammar? • Paragraphs? • Did they describe all sections? (Housing, Toilets/sanitary conditions, water supply, disease) • Quotes or evidence from the sheets? • One thing you did well was… • EBI (even better if. . )