Learning Objective

Unit 8: What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times?

Software - Websites - Activities

Generic:

www.swgfl.org.uk/Wiltshistoryquest/timezones/

1: What was different about rich and poor people in Tudor times?

• to distinguish between wealth and poverty in Tudor times
• about the types of evidence for the Tudor period

Clicker 4 resource-Tudors: Rich & Poor

Sites of general interest http://4learning.co.uk/essentials/history/units/tudorl

PowerPoint

2: How comfortable were the lives of rich Tudor people?

• the key features of Tudor buildings
• to identify different ways in which Tudor houses have been represented

Sequence photos of houses through history

Sequence instructions for building a Tudor house

3: What can inventories tell us about the lives of people at this time?

• to use inventories to identify characteristic features of different types of people in Tudor times
• to draw conclusions about life in Tudor times from different sources of information
• that there are different ways of interpreting the same information

Sources of Tudor inventories www.peartree12.freeserve.co.uk/invent.html

www.members.aol.com/maddockgen/documents/rmadinv

Worksheets to use with inventories

4: What was life like for poor people in Tudor times?

• about the lives of the poor in Tudor times
• about the attitudes of wealthier people towards the poor
• about the types of evidence and gaps in evidence about the poor in this period

Information about a variety of topics www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Tudors

5: How different were the lives of rich and poor people?

• to summarise all they have learnt about the rich and the poor in Tudor times
• to select, organise and structure information to answer a key question

Clicker 4 resource-The Tudors

Grid for children to organise their findings

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