In this lesson, the children will discuss how we learn about the past. They will focus on the key historical skills of evidence and interpretation. They will then be history detectives themselves by looking at images of things related to the cotton industry from the past and deciding what the pictures tell them.

The file contains the following resources:
-    an editable lesson presentation
-    an editable lesson plan
-      an editable activity sheet for recording the main task
-      six images for the main activity
-      a stop and jot activity sheet
-      an editable challenge activity (included in the lesson presentation)

National curriculum objectives:
Pupils should be taught about significant historical events, people, and places in their own locality....