Florence Nightingale: Health and Hygiene in the 1800s Pre-Visit Teaching Resource Storytelling
What is it?
An introduction to the life of Florence Nightingale. A shared reading task on the carpet led by the teacher using books such as Florence Nightingale (Usborne Famous Lives) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Florence-Nightingale-Usborne-Famous- Lives/dp/074606327X or A Picture Book of Florence Nightingale http://www.amazon.co.uk/Picture-Book-Florence-Nightingale- Biography/dp/0823412849. The shared reading tasks can be used as an introduction to Florence Nightingale’s life and the important factors which made her famous.
Skills: Some cross-curricular links that can be made: Some skills that will be used and developed in the starter activity Drama - Children could act out/ use include: drama skills to reiterate the importance of Florence Nightingale Speaking and listening skills will during the war. be developed through a basic Computing- Children use an online shared reading task. resource Comprehension skills will be (https://www.mystorybook.com/boo developed through the drama ks/new/) or any other programmes and ICT activities. Children will available in school, to retell the story demonstrate how much of the of Florence Nightingale in their own information they retained from words. They can include images and the text and their understanding text to do this. of it.
Adapt!
To extend the children’s knowledge before the trip; one area of focus would be to look at Florence Nightingale’s role in the war and the 5 environmental factors she implemented into hospitals in the Crimean War. These include:
Pure fresh air Pure water Effective drainage Cleanliness Light
These could be taught using a range of different strategies suitable for the class; for instance a written task, shared reading, drama etc.
Post-Visit Teaching Resource Facts about Florence
What is it? ‘Facts about Florence’ is a sequencing activity designed as a starting point for cross-curricular teaching and recap based on the Florence Nightingale day out. The fact sheet can be used as a tool to recap the facts about Florence Nightingale’s life that have been discussed during the trip. Children will cut out the facts and arrange them on their tables (either individually or in pairs or small groups).
Skills: Some cross-curricular links that can
be made: Some skills that will be used and developed in the starter activity • Literacy - Children add time include: connectives to some of the • Remembering what was ordered facts and narrate some learned on the trip. of these as part of an ordered • Problem solving to work out story about Florence Nightingale. which events must be before or • Geography – Map work. Children after others, even if they draw arrows on a map to show cannot be remembered Florence Nightingale’s journey • Organisation - children must across the world. (They could go choose how best to display into more detail about the modes their facts to show the order of transport that she used and they have chosen. may be extended to use more than just the ‘Facts about Florence’ facts).
Adapt! To make this task more exciting and interactive, children could go on a treasure hunt to find the facts before they can put them in order. This would work best for children working in groups.
If a large enough area is available making a timeline for children to stand with dates and facts could make a really effective visual representation of Florence’s lifetime and may make the information more memorable.
Facts about Florence
God told Florence to help people.
Florence travelled to Scutari with her nurses.
Florence set up a school to train nurses.
She died in 1910 aged ninety.
Florence would walk along the wards at night with a lamp.
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820.
She was given the Order of Merit award by the king.
Florence was sent to Crimea to run a hospital.
Florence became ill and spent the rest of her life in bed.
She decided to become a nurse.
She chose 38 nurses to come with her.
Queen Victoria sent Florence a brooch for all her hard work.
Florence read lots of books about nursing.
Florence and her nurses made the hospital clean so the soldiers would get better.