Lesson Idea | Famous People: Florence Nightingale (KS1)
Provider: The Historical Association
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Learn about Florence Nightingale’s life, why she travelled to the Crimea, and how her work transformed nursing and healthcare. This engaging cross-curricular lesson develops history knowledge alongside literacy and oracy skills, while also linking to maths through data handling and interpretation. Children explore how Florence used statistics and her famous coxcomb diagrams to show that more soldiers died from illness than battle wounds, helping bring major improvements to hospital conditions. Designed to stretch and support learners of all abilities.
Lesson Idea | Famous People: Florence Nightingale (KS1)
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