Artefacts
About this learning resource
Format: PDF
Photographs with descriptions which enable students to understand and use primary sources in their history lessons and homework. These artefacts relate to key events in the history of the Tower of London from AD50 to 1952.
National Curriculum links
• Supports students to 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 apply primary evidence to question Tower history.
• Students will create their own hypotheses about the Tower's history using primary evidence.
Resource Information
Key Stage
- KS3 (age 11-14)
- KS4 (age 15-16)
- KS5 (age 16+)
- Home Educators
Subjects
- Archaeology
- History
Topic
- Historic Environment
Type
- Historic sources
Palace
- Tower of London
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