Activities
Activity 1
Note making
Take notes on the programme in a table like the one below.
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What you find out about Stan, Kay, Derek and Joe |
What you think about them |
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Agricultural work |
Food |
Environment |
The impact of the Second World War |
Activity 2
Making sense of the information
Look at the list below, which gives some information about the way people lived on the land in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, and decide whether things have changed since.
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Life in the countryside in the 1940s, 50s and 60s |
Changed a lot |
Changed a little |
Stayed mostly the same |
Stayed the same |
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People kept pigs and grew most of their own food. |
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Cattle were walked to market by a ‘drover’. |
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Children helped with farm work. |
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Cows were milked by hand. |
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Horses played an important role in pulling machinery and wagons. |
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Farming was very hard work. |
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Compare your answers with those of other people in the class. Do you agree?
What do your answers tell you about the life of farmers — have things changed a lot, a little or not at all?
Stan said he thought things were better when he was younger. Do you agree with him?
Activity 3
Research
The following web link will help you find out more about Dorset:
[hotlink:]
http://www.dorset-cc.gov.uk/dorset3.htm
Write about some of the things you have found out and share them with your teacher and your class.
Activity 4
Life stories
Talk to an older relative or friend about their earliest memories of life in the countryside. (It doesn’t matter how old they are, but it is important that you find out in which year they were born.)
Did they live in the countryside or the town? Do they think the countryside has changed much in their lifetime?
