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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