We have two versions of this worksheet, blank and with lines. Your KS1 class will explore the improvements Florence Nightingale made at the hospital in Scutari (after the doctors reluctantly allowed women to assist) and how these changes impacted the wounded soldiers. Note: This lesson was updated on 20th August 2020. The English army set up camp on the shores of the Black Sea, near the Crimean peninsula. Tell your child the story of Florence Nightingale using resource 6 for support. Scutari, emotion, important, achievement . Can they compare and contrast hospitals before and after Florence Nightingale's work to improve them? Tragedy was lurking. Compare And Contrast Hospitals Before And After Florence Nightingale Venn Diagram. Working in groups, ask pupils to choose what they think is Look at pictures of the hospital in Scutari before and after Florence arrived. There was a lack of transportation, provisions, water, medicine, dressing material and physicians. In 1854 Nightingale grabbed her chances. before she arrived the soldiers slept in dirty beds or on the floor but after she arrived they slept in beds with clean bedding. There is a PDF and an editable version of each file. The second (on the left) was 18556, after she had implemented a series of reforms to the hospital and nursing practices. Ask them to circle the differences in the second image. Encourage children to make direct comparisons before and after, e.g. The hospital was severely overcrowded, with little to no beds, causing wounded men to lie in agony on the filthy ground, where rats ran freely. The military and medical authorities at Scutari viewed Nightingale's intervention as a reflection on themselves. A lesson plan and worksheet / activity on how Florence Nightingale improved the hospital in Scutari. The English army was ill-prepared for its task. You can find more KS1 History lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources on the Save Teachers Sundays website. Ask your child to find the differences in the second image and draw a circle round it. conditions were like at the Scutari hospital before and after Florence Nightingale arrived. However, before the end of 1854, Nightingale and her nurses had brought the Scutari hospital into better order. Pictures of Scutari Hospital before and after Florence Nightingale arrived session 2 Timeline cards session 4 1820 Florence Nightingale is born in the city of Florence in Italy 1910 Florence Nightingale dies 1854 Florence Nightingale takes nurses to Scutari Hospital in the Crimea 1846 Florence Nightingale trains as a nurse in Germany 1860 Discuss what Florence achieved in the hospital. When Florence Nightingale walked the wards at night in the hospital at Scutari to comfort the sick men, write letters home and check wounds, she carried an oil lamp like this one. Home / Free Downloads / Knowledge and Understanding of the World / History / Florence Nightingale / They will learn about how she got her nickname and compare what the hospital at Scutari was like before and after Florence's arrival. Sort pupils into pairs and give them images of the hospital in Scutari before and after Florence arrived. England and France became involved in a conflict between Russia and Turkey. Florence immediately accepted this offer, and together with her team of volunteer nurses headed off to Scutari, where all of the wounded soldiers were being sent. In her diagram, each wedge represented a month, and the area of the wedge showed the number of soldiers who had died that month. Provide children with the True or False Cards in pairs. Here's an activity to get the children thinking about Florence Nightingale's achievements. Year of the Ox; Many of her own volunteers were inexperienced, and the behaviour of the orderlies was offensive to the women.