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National Curriculum
Historical enquiry 4) Pupils should be taught:
a) how to find out about the events, people and changes studied
from a range of sources of information, including ICT based sources
[for example, documents, printed sources, CDROMS, databases, pictures,
photographs, historic buildings, visits to museums, galleries
and sites]
Romans in Britain 9) A study of how British society was
affected by Roman settlement
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National Curriculum Cross Curricular links
ICT - Finding things out 1) a) to talk about what information
they need and how they can find and use it, [for example, searching
the internet or a CDROM, using printed material]
Geography - 2) In developing geographical skills - c)to
use atlases and globes, and maps and plans at a range of scales
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Resources
- A large map of England
- Internet - English Heritage Images of England website
- Blank template for recording observations
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Vocabulary
* Roman * settlement * historic * buildings
* architecture * walls * tomb * statues
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Learning Objective
To use ICT based sources to find evidence of the Romans in England.
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Prior Learning
It is helpful if the children have learnt something about the Roman
way of life, asked and answered questions and made inferences from
artefacts and considered the different ways in which the past is
represented (eg pictures, buildings, stories and eye-witness accounts).
They make also require some experience of the English Heritage Images
of England website in order to gain familiarity with the search
facility before completing the lesson.
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Whole class introduction
- Use a large UK map to find Roman place names in England. Look
at examples such as Doncaster and Colchester and focus on their
endings- '-caster' and '-chester'.
- Ask children to locate more examples of towns and cities with
these Roman endings. Make a list.
- Discuss the significance of their location (on the coast)
and their names (eg. 'castra' was a Roman fort).
- Ask children how we could find evidence of the Romans in these
towns and cities.
- List their suggestions and introduce them to the English Heritage
Images of England website- explaining that the site contains
photographs of listed buildings and structures in England taken
between 1999 and 2004.
Activities
- Show children how to use the main Images of England
website and the quick search facility to look for pictures of
Roman buildings or remains in England
- In pairs, children use the site to find evidence of the Romans
by locating pictures of buildings or remains in the areas identified
on the map
- Children read any information given and make notes using the
attached template. Click
here to see a completed
example
- Less able children could be given an image and list description
with features underlined and asked to identify and label them.
Plenary
- Pairs of children feed their findings back to the rest of
the class.
- Discuss what evidence these images provide us with about the
Romans in England. How reliable/useful is this evidence? What
are the advantages/disadvantages of photographic evidence?
- Look at the pictures in detail. What features/structures do
they have in common? What were the buildings used for by the
Romans? How have they changed? What are they used for now?
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Assessment
Can children use a range of sources of information to find evidence
of the effects the Romans had on England?
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Future Learning
- Visit a Roman site to look at and study the remains of Roman
buildings.
- Identify local Roman sites from maps and aerial photographs
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