TEACHERS CONTENT GUIDE
TITHE MAPS AND APPORTIONMENTS

Using Tithe Maps

Objectives

To understand that maps can teach us things about the past.

To know how we can use maps to answer questions about the past.

Key Question

What does the old map tell me?

What else do I want to find out?

How will I do this?

Can the map help me further?

What evidence remains in our locality that is recorded on the old map?

National Curriculum Ref

4a 4b Historical enquiry

Unit 7 Local Study

Resources

Maps available on Staffordshire Places or at Stafford, Stoke and Lichfield Record Offices

Activity 1

Introduce children to a recent map of the local area, either online or hard copy.

Give children time just to look and discuss what they can see and recognise.

Ask them to label local places such as the school, post office shops, pubs, hills, common land, rivers etc (If using computers for this activity the different maps can be copied into Power Point and placed in a shared area for children to label.

Ask children to look at the older map and make comparisons. What is different? What is the same? Why do they think these changes have happened? What would they like to find out now and how are they going to do it?

Activity 2

Using the older maps ask children to devise a history trail around some of the oldest parts of their locality. It may be useful to draw this onto a hard copy.

Ask them to write directions for where they would go and list places of historical interest they may pass which are present on the map.

Take children on the history trail using the digital camera or video to record the historical places they have highlighted.

Use maps and photos to prepare a class or individual group display.

Cross curricular

Geography Local Study

Opportunities for Extension and Support

Extension

Children could use the digital photography and video clips to make a Power Point presentation of how the locality has changed over 100 years.
Children may also formulate ideas about how the area may change in their lifetime and draw maps to illustrate their ideas.

Support

Directions may be read into a tape recorder.

Opportunities for ICT

Use of labelling and editing using the computer.

Use of digital camera, video camera, and tape recorder.

Use of Power Point for presentations.

Map drawing software for drawing their maps of the future.