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LessonScienceIntermediate

The Pump on Broad Street

London, September 1854. Six hundred people are dead in ten streets and everybody knows it is the bad air. One doctor asks a different question, marks every death on a map of the neighbourhood, and asks the map which water pump those people walked to. The answer is a shape. This one is true.

16 min19 questionsGrades 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

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1If the bad air were doing it, what should the deaths look like on a map of the neighbourhood?Multiple choice
2The MapInteractive
3The brewery sat in the middle of the deaths and lost nobody. Why is that MORE convincing than the deaths themselves?