Market Place Activity: How skilful were Medieval Castle and Cathedral Builders?

This fun and interactive lesson has been designed to help students investigate how skillful were Medieval castle and cathedral builders through a market place activity. It looks at a range of building skills from quarrying, stone masons, lime burners, scaffolding, heavy lifting, decoration, fixtures and fittings. This lesson links in well with science and technology. Once students have completed the gather and share, there are a number of consolidation exercises to follow up the lesson.

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The aims and objectives of this lesson are:

Theme: Castles and Cathedrals
Know: How were Medieval castles and cathedrals built?
Understand: What building methods and tools were used by Medieval people?
Evaluate: How skilful were Medieval builders?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: How were Medieval castles and cathedrals built?
Can You Explain: What building methods and tools were used by Medieval people?
Can You Evaluate: How skilful were Medieval builders?

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