Life Expectancy

Introduction

The Life expectancy is low in the Victorian do you think you can survive?

Task

Your job is to imagine that you are apart of family in the Victorian Era, and see all the hardships your family has to go through to survive. At the end you can take the lifespan quiz to see how long you may live in this current time period.

Process

Your family has 3 children. You are 10, your youngest brother is 5 (Louis), and your younger sister is 8 (Martha). Your mother is 37 and your father 38. Your family owns a small farm that grows wheat and vegetables (for your family only.)

Louis contracts Scarlet fever. What is the fatality rate in 1840 in the US? What was the fatality rate in 1834 in Great Britain?

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2011/07/06/scarlet-fever-in-hong-kong/

Martha contracts Typhus. List 10 the symptoms she will have.

http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/typhus/overview.html

Your Mother is pregnant with another child. What are the chances she and the child will survive? If the child survives birth what is the percent chance it will die in infancy?

http://logicmgmt.com/1876/overview/medicine/women.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_infant_mortality_rates_in_Victorian…

Your Father gets sick after putting a pesticide on the crops.What pesticide, common in the Victorian Period, could have made him sick?

http://forstarsandbeetles.com/2313/07/11/pesky-pesticides/

You get your first job working in a coal mine. List 3 possible dangers working in coal mine presents. How long will your average work day be?

http://www.victorianchildren.org/victorian-child-labor/

Evaluation

The following questions' have answers from the websites from previously used.

1. When were the three epidemic phases of scarlet fever?

2. What are some of the causes of typhus?

3. In 1800, the average amount of children per family dropped from ___ to ___.

4. List 6 jobs that children in the Victorian could've had.

Conclusion