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Functions of the Tower of London

Classroom Activity

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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

Type

  • Lesson ideas
  • Printable activities

Palace

  • Tower of London
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Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned at the Tower of London for 13 years. Under constant threat of execution, Raleigh struggled with poor mental health. Learn about Sir Walter Raleigh through the story of his imprisonment in the Tower of London and his medicinal garden.

Key Stage

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

Subject

  • History
  • PSHE

Topic

  • Stuarts
  • Elizabethans
  • Crime & Punishment

Self-guided historical enquiry designed to support GCSE students studying the Normans, in particular the AQA historic environment of Norman England.

Key Stage

  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Normans

A selection of primary and secondary image and written sources

Key Stage

  • KS4 (age 15-16)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Historic Environment