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Undercover Time Explorer: Tudor Kitchens

Game

About this learning resource

Format: Game

Step into the shoes of a Tudor servant and go back in time to help prepare a feast of food and drink for Henry VIII in his Tudor Kitchens at Hampton Court Palace.  But make sure to avoid being caught as an imposter!

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

• To identify and understand the similarities and differences between Tudor and modern-day food, dress and objects.
• To understand that Tudor society had a strict hierarchy.
• To imagine and describe what a Tudor kitchen and food would have looked like.
• To imagine how a Tudor royal thought and felt.

Resource Information

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)

Subjects

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors

Type

  • Games & Quizzes

Palace

  • Hampton Court Palace
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