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Functions of the Tower of London

Classroom activity

Classroom activity

About this learning resource

Format: PDF

Classroom activity sheet with guide to the different functions of the Tower including a sorting exercise to help students explore the key functions in more detail.

National Curriculum links

• Extend and deepen chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, to provide a well-informed context for wider learning.
• Identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time.

Learning objectives

• Students will understand that evidence is used to interpret history.
• Students will understand that historical importance is subjective and linked to time period and evidence.

Resource Information

Key Stage

  • KS3 (age 11-14)

Subjects

  • History

Topic

  • Medieval
  • Tudors
  • Stuarts
  • Wars

Type

  • For the classroom

Palace

  • Tower of London
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Children depict the imprisonment of Guy Fawkes in the Tower of London for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, 1605.

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Stuarts
  • Crime & Punishment

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Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • Home Educators
  • International

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors

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Key Stage

  • KS1 (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • Home Educators
  • SEND

Subject

  • History
  • English
  • Science
  • Art & Design

Topic

  • Wars