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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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Contains a visual story, support notes and Widgit symbol sheet for a visit to the Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court Palace.

Key Stage

  • SEND

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors

Contains a visual story, document and Widgit symbol sheet for a visit to the Georgian rooms at Hampton Court Palace.

Key Stage

  • SEND

Subject

  • History
  • Art & Design

Topic

  • Georgians

An editable timeline of Hampton Court Palace for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. Use dates, key facts and activities to explore the history of this iconic Palace.

Key Stage

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

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Normans
  • Medieval
  • Tudors
  • Stuarts
  • Georgians
  • Victorians
  • 20th & 21st Century