How did Britain build the largest empire in history? (Full Scheme)

Fully resourced scheme of work on the enquiry 'How did Britain build the largest empire ever?

This unit has been influenced and uses sources from a range of scholarship including (amongst others): The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, The English and their History by Robert Toombs and The Writing Revolution by Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler.

This comes with pre/post assessment and the following 9 lessons, the resources that go with the lesson are in brackets:

Pre-test
1- What is Empire? (British Empire map + what is empire)
2- Why did Britain want an Empire? (With reasons for empire diamond 9 + why did britain want an empire)
3- How successful was British Colonisation of Jamestown? (Jamestown + How successful was british colonisation?)
4- How were Africans treated on Slave Ships? (Slave trade + Slavery sheet)
5- How did the East India Company impact the British Empire and India? (EIC Impact)
6- What led to the American War of Independence in 1775? (American Revolution)
7- Why was Slavery abolished in the British Empire? (Abolition of Slavery)
8- What caused the Sepoy rebellion in 1857? (Sepoy Rebellion)
9- How did Britain build the largest Empire in history? (Empire Build + Empire build sources) This can be made into a double lesson which incorporates techniques from the writing revolution by also using (Appositive plan)
Post Assessment