| The lesson plan outlines how teachers can teach children about the pastimes of Victorian children and how children's literature was used to impart morals to Victorian children. |
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| Children will learn how Victorian childhood activities and stories affected Victorian children. |
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| The lesson plan contains suggestions on how a teacher can assess whether children are working a level 3, 4 or 5 according to their observations about Victorian toys and pastimes. |
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| Pupils should be aware of the dates of the Victorian period. They should know that technology and the materials we use have changed substantially since Victorian times. |
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| Most children will observe that only modern toys use batteries and electricity and understand that Victorian stories and toys were meant to help children be better people. |
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| If you have access to a data projector and computer, the sites on Victorian optical toys are well worth exploring with the children. |
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 Worksheet 1. Changing Pastimes.
- This worksheet encourages children to compare how they play with how children played and spent their time in Victorian times. It makes links with the technologies avaiable today vs. those of the Victorian period.
 Cautionary Tales by Hillaire Belloc
- Site has poems by Hillaire Belloc including some from his from his book of Cautionary Tales published in 1907.
Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies
- For Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies--delightul if rather gory poem.
George Who played with a Dangerous Toy
- For the poem George Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions.
Victorian Optical Toys
- This site has a good collection of Flash animations of Victorian optical toys.
Philosophical Toy World
- Enter the Philosophical Toy World. Click on the toy window and then the Felix the cat zoetrope. If you hold your mouse down at the right end of the picture strip you can make it move and gradually appear to be animated.
QCA Unit 11 Activity 5 How did different Victorian children use their spare time?
- This lesson plan gives ideas on how to each children about the pastimes of Victorian children using the attached worksheet and Victorian/Edwardian poems (see websites).
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