Teacher Notes

THE CHANGING PLACE OF WOMEN AT HOME: INTRODUCTION

This resource provides a range of activities on the changing place of women at home since the start of the Twentieth century. It can be used in sections as a starter activity or over a series of lessons to discuss the main changes over the century. It can also be set as an extension exercise to reinforce lesson activities and it can be used as an independent learning activity by students of the WJEC GCSE specification.

The resource consists of a series of frames which are capable of being used on an interactive whiteboard where one is available – otherwise it is possible to make reasonable use of the resource with a laptop projector. As with all these resources staff and individual students can use the pencil and notebook feature provided to annotate the screen.

There are three set of resources provided:

  1. Overview – this focuses on changes covering the specification
  2. Change and Continuity – a series of frames covering the main elements of the specification
  3. Revision – a series of five frames identifying themes selected from the specification.

OVERVIEW: THE CHANGING PLACE OF WOMEN AT HOME

The resource opens with an introduction overview frame showing three women at home at different periods:

This opening frame asks students to suggest ANYTHING they can about the main developments in the changing role of women at home between 1900 and 2010 based on their study of the topic or as an introduction to the topic. Here, as elsewhere in the resource, there is no one answer and a variety of responses can be generated from the students. In this frame further information can be found by clicking on the images – an example is shown:

To move to the next exercise please click on 2 at the bottom of the screen.

These exercises are designed to allow the students to offer suggestions about the place of women in the home. They are free to discuss and make any reasonable suggestions and again the pencil and notebook allows for annotation of the screen. By clicking on the INFORMATION symbol some suggested points can be seen to develop a closer focus on the appropriate issues. The students should be encouraged to discuss other aspects of the issue as there is no one correct answer. Students and teachers can continue to the next exercise without accessing the information bar if they so wish. The frames attempt to cover the main elements of the specification. Click on the arrows to consider further other issues on the changing role of women in the home since the start of the Twentieth century.

CHRONOLOGY

The following activities focus on the chronology of the period.

This exercise is designed to promote a chronological understanding of the changing place of women at home since the start of the Twentieth century. After some consideration of the chronological clues in the image students should be invited to select and click on an appropriate decade that the source represents. Wrong choices are marked as such but the correct choice leads to a discussion of some of the factors that may be offered to explain the changing place of women at home in this period. The suggested reasons will come up in a random order each time the resource is used and students will be able to move them into a rank order appropriate to their views. To continue with the exercise click on the forward arrow and repeat the process to consider the other decades.

The students should be encouraged to discuss aspects of the issue and understand that it was more than a gender issue. There is no one correct answer but clicking on the INFORMATION BAR will allow students to access a couple of suggested responses. Students and teachers can continue to the next exercise without accessing the information bar if they so wish. The next nine frames attempt to cover the main elements of the specification.

REVISION: THE CHANGING PLACE OF WOMEN AT HOME

This resource provides revision style activities on the changing place of women at home since the start of the Twentieth century.

It comprises a series of five thematic factors affecting the changing place of women at home. It can be set as an extension exercise to reinforce lesson activities and it can be used as an independent learning activity by students. Students are asked to consider the impact of each theme (a note of caution here – these are themes selected by the author and DO NOT represent the fuller range of themes possible in this specification). Clicking on each image will provide some detailed revision notes.