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Find out more about Florence Nightingale
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| Background | This web site is written especially for children and is very informative. You will just enjoy looking through it but below there are some suggestions for special ways of developing what you find out. |
| Task | Just explore it! |
| How? |
Snaith Primary School Web site |
| Background | Florence Nightingale is best known for nursing the soldiers in The Crimean War which was fought by Britain, France and Turkey against Russia between 1854-56. Find out the main reasons why soldiers died there. |
| Task | Florence wrote many letters. Write a letter from her begging the government to do something about the conditions there, explaining why so many soldiers died there. |
| How? |
Snaith Primary School - the Crimean War |
| Background | This section provides information about the fate of the 38 nurses who accompanied her to help nurse the wounded in Scutari. |
| Task | Use the information supplied
here to create a small database about the fate of these 'nurses'. What do you deduce from your findings? |
| How? |
Snaith Primary School - 'The 38 'Nurses' You database will need four columns:- Name: Reason for return: Date of return: Where trained. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to work out how to add dates where not known) |
| Background | This section of the site tells you about her life and if you read the two sections above you will have information about her time in the Crimean War. The BBC also provide an outline of her life. |
| Task | You now know what year she went to Malvern for The Water Cure. Read what has happened in her life over the previous15 years then carry out a conversation between her and another visitor who wants to know about it. You might like to make a tape recording of this |
| How? |
| Background | This is Country Joe's web site about her and provides a more detailed timeline, in particular about her state of health. Scroll through to 1855-59. |
| Task | Discuss why you think Florence needed to go to Malvern for The Water Cure. |
| How? |
Country Joe.com |
| Background | Find out just a little about the Peakland Heritage site and how this enormous site is structured. In the process, discover a new aspect about Florence Nightingale. |
| Task | Copy and paste the advice Florence Nightingale gave about suitable bedding. Now provide an appropriate illustration to accompany it. Make sure you interpret her instructions exactly - right down to the 'chamber utensil'!!! |
| How? |
Follow this web maze to reach the information |
| Background | Country Joe's web site shows all the clothing Florence would have worn as a 20 year old. |
| Task | What opinion do you think Florence Nightingale, as a nurse, would have had of the clothing of the time? Read this then hold an argument between Florence and another lady who is very happy to dress this way. |
| How? |
Country Joe.Com - Getting Dressed |
| Background | Although Florence Nightingale is best known for her work during the Crimean War, what she learnt there had an affect on nursing from then on. Nearly thirty years after she stayed at Malvern, Nightingale nurses were working in many areas of the world. |
| Task | Mark areas on a map of the world where Nightingale nurses were working by 1887. Add an explanatory caption. |
| How? |
BBC site - Medicine Through Time |
| Background | This page of Country Joe's web site explains that Florence's family home, Lea Hurst, in Derbyshire later became their Summer home so it was well used by the family. It was very close to some lead mines and also to a hat factory where there would be mercury. Both of these could cause illness and might be the reason why she suffered so much ill health. Look at the page to find out the name of a person and place you might recognise. |
| Task | Florence Nightingale visited Malvern for The Water Cure. What might have caused her illness? What other hydropathic establishment would she have known about? Add this information to any display previously carried out about that place. |
| How? |
Country Joe.com
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| Background | This is the introduction to Country Joe's web site about Florence Nightingale. You have already been introduced to some sections. You might like to explore more but for now..... |
| Task | Copy and paste the two pictures of her, one dated 1851 and the second, dated 1856. Provide captions to give your reasons for the changes. If you have delved in to the other sections above, you could have several reasons. |
| How? |
Country Joe.com |
| Background | On
first page of the Snaith Primary School web site about Florence Nightingale
it states that On the second site
it states "On her death in 1910 the trustees of her will refused
her burial in Westminster Abbey and she was buried in home parish in
Hampshire" On the third site (Country Joe's - remember it is American) there is more information, showing that Florence herself wanted a very simple funeral. |
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| How? |
BBC - This Sceptred Isle - Florence Nightingale, Church and State |
| Background | Florence was such a notable person there are statues erected to recognise this. |
| Task | Design and possibly create a clay model of her. |
| How? |
DerbyshireUK net
Web Site |
| Background | This site has been created by Mark Telford when he was at Primary School. During 1998 his project was based on the Victorian Age and Mark chose to concentrate on 4 famous Victorians from 4 different walks of life but who all made a significant impact on the world around them. One of them was Florence Nightingale. |
| Task | Learn from his site and evaluate it. Would be proud to have produced this site? |
| How? |
Marks Telford's site |