KS3 History: Britain 1750-1900
Task 1. Key Aspect 1. Chronology.
Focus. A Chronological record of the growth of Sainsbury's business.
Chronology is the word that historians use to describe the order of time in which events happen. This task in the Sainsbury's Virtual Museum will be to build up a picture of the growth of Sainsbury's as a business by investigating the chronology of events. Use the information to make a chronological record of the growth of the business by filling in the incomplete boxes below.
Task 2. Key Aspect 2. Knowledge and Understanding. Causation.
Focus. The causes of the growth of Sainsbury's 1869-1900.
Causation is a word used by historians to describe why things happen. Historians try to find as many causes as possible and then to put them in order of importance. This task in the Sainsbury's Virtual Museum will involve you investigating why Sainsbury's grew as a business. Complete the following chart using the Web pages indicated.
Task 3. Key Aspect 2. Knowledge and Understanding. Change and Continuity.
Focus. The changing features of Sainsbury's 1869-1900.
Change is a word used by historians to describe how some things develop over time. Continuity is a word used by historians to describe how some things stay the same over time. This task in the Virtual Museum will involve you comparing how the first Sainsbury's store in 1869 with Sainsbury's stores in the 1890s. You will be asked to make observations on changes and continuities.
Task 4. Key Aspect 2. Knowledge and Understanding. Characteristic features in the past.
Focus. A Sainsbury's store during the 1890s.
To describe how things looked in the past is what historians call the characteristic features of the past. This task in the Virtual Museum will involve you producing a description of a Sainsbury's store in the 1890s.
Task 5. Key Aspect 2. Knowledge and Understanding. People at different levels of Society.
Focus. Division of work within the Sainsbury's business.
Historians recognise that people in the past had certain roles in their lives and that these differ from other people in the past. They call this people having different levels in society and there being a division of work. This task will involve you investigating whether or not people had different roles within Sainsbury's business and what these roles involved.
Task 6. Key Aspect 4. Historical Enquiry.
Focus. An enquiry into the reliability and usefulness of photographic evidence.
In order to write about the past historians need evidence. However they need to be careful in reaching a judgement about how useful the evidence is that they find. All evidence has both strengths and limitations in its usefulness. Sainsbury's Archives contain a range of sources of evidence including photographs, postcards, advertisements, employee records and many more. In this task you will be asked to look at a source of evidence and make some judgements about its usefulness.
Task 7. Key Aspect 4. Historical Enquiry.
Focus. An enquiry into the reliability and usefulness of advertisements as evidence.
In order to write about the past historians need evidence. However they need to be careful in reaching a judgement about how useful the evidence is that they find. All evidence has both strengths and limitations in its usefulness. Sainsbury's archives contain a range of sources of evidence including photographs, postcards, advertisements, employee records and many more. In this task you will be asked to look at a source of evidence and make some judgements about its usefulness.
Task 8. Key Aspect 4. Historical Enquiry.
Focus. Comparing the reliability and usefulness of evidence.
In order to complete this activity you will need to have completed both Task 6 and Task 7. In doing these tasks you will have reached a judgement about how useful each piece of evidence is in telling us about Sainsbury's as a business in the 1890s. You will need to use your notes from Task 6 and Task 7 in order to complete this task.